Christine:
Are you having them "click-in" one answer at a time.. i.e. everyone doing
each answer at the same time, or using the "homework" (as it is called in
the Response clicker system we use) feature, wherein they key in the
25-answers at their own pace, some doing it all at once, some doing it as
they go through the iRAT. That is, we hand out paper copies of the
iRAT... they are asked to mark their answers on the iRAT for their own use
later in the tRAT process... and, to key in their iRAT answers in the
clickers.
I am sure there is some cheating going on in our process, too (i.e.
wondering eyes as they check answers on the paper copy), but I cannot see
how it relates to the clickers, in our case.
Stopping use of the clickers would not be good, in our case at least: They
(the software that tabulates the scores) really make it feasible to
collect and analyze the data in real time.. to see what is going on, in
terms of problem areas to address in mini-lectures, discussions.
Gary
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Hi Everyone,
In my last TBL class evaluations by students, I had some disappointing
responses to the item "Cheating is no problem in this class." Only 8
students agreed, 26 said they were unsure, and 37 said they disagreed.
I was using clickers, so I got the responses right away and was able to
ask each team to write suggestions for solving the cheating problem. I
got several suggestions that said "stop using clickers."
I had been using clickers on the iRATs for the first time in this
course. I can only guess at why using clickers might have made it easier
to cheat. I'm thinking that in the process of clicking in answers it
may have been possible for students to send text messages via cell
phones to other students without being noticed. Or maybe it was just
easy to see what answers other students around them were clicking.
Perhaps students in other countries would be more explicit about how the
cheating was taking place, but here the students are only vague. Even
those that are angry about the unfairness of cheating are unwilling to
"rat out" their peers by telling me clearly how the cheating is taking
place.
I'm not sure if I should just stop using the clickers for the iRATs or
not. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Christine
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