Transcript Use of EVS in Summative Assessement

Getting Started with EVS
Improving the student experience in
learning, teaching and formative
assessment
Outline of the session:
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Why use EVS
What the students think
EVS Hardware & Software
A step by step approach on how to use EVS
Suggested uses of EVS
Student information
Where to get help
Why use EVS?
Could this be your lecture?
Now does
everyone
understand?
Yes!
I don’t,
but I’m
not
saying
Where
shall we go
tonight?
No! – but
you can’t
hear me
can you?
I’ve
just
had a
new
text
Why we use EVS?
• Encourage active student
participation
• Engage with the whole class
• Check and capture student
knowledge
– formative/summative
• Give prompt feedback
• Give quiet students a voice
– including international
students
• Add interest and fun
UH Assessment-for-Learning
Principles, 2012
• Engages students with the
assessment criteria
• Supports personalised
learning
• Ensures feedback leads to
improvement
• Focuses on student
development
• Stimulates dialogue
• Considers student and staff
effort
What does an Electronic Voting System do?
Formative
feedback
Summative
feedback
• Allows all students to respond to
questions
• Gives instant and timely feedback
• Enables answers to be collated,
saved and processed for:
• the whole class
• subgroup of the class / teams
• individual students
Suggested uses of EVS
• Question and answer sessions – formative or
summative
• Seek opinions – e.g. ethical issues
• Maths diagnostic tests
• Drop quizzes e.g. best 4 from 5 scores
• Team-based learning
• Introduce competitive element to learning e.g.
team-based learning
What do the students think?
EEVS project survey 590 students, 2011-12
EVS had highly positive (perceived) impact on students’ learning and
satisfaction
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Responding to questions made me think about the course material (84%)
EVS provided me with an immediate check of understanding (83%)
Using the EVS allowed problem areas to be identified (75%)
I enjoy using EVS in my learning (71%)
Summative use of EVS has in some cases created unnecessary
tension, anxiety and indicated inadequacies of the technology for
formal examinations.
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Not given enough time for answering questions
Not testing how easily you can use device but how much you know about the subject
Should be able to cancel answers as it is possible to press a wrong button accidentally
Unable to amend your answers once the question has moved on
Using the handsets for a test , made the test feel less important, almost ‘gimmicky’
Terminology
 TurningPoint (TP) is a type of Electronic Voting
System (EVS) or Personal Response System (PRS)
 Software – TurningPoint is free to download
from the website
 Receiver has a USB connection already in all
classroom computers
 Interactive slide – a slide that takes voting
(response)
 Scanning unit – assigns Student ID to handset
 Handset (Response Card)
has a unique Device ID on the back
RF LCD
XR
NXT
How to download TurningPoint for PCs
• Install TurningPoint 5 software
• This version is being used by the University 2013-14
onward
(Note, you will be asked to register your details).
• Click on the link to download below to download
TurningPoint software
Download the ‘Turning Point’ software
to your computer desktop
http://www.turningtechnologies.com/responses
ystemsupport/downloads/
Save it as an icon to
your desktop
Activity 1:
Please vote to demonstrate our live example
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1. Engaging students
2. Giving feedback
3. Bridging the gap between teaching
and learning
4. Teaching international students
5. Maintaining student motivation
Creating an EVS activity
 Start TurningPoint (you must not have
PowerPoint open)
 Click on ‘New’
 Select the slide type, and insert question
e.g. Vertical slide
 Add question at the top and answer in
the box below
Writing an Interactive slide
New
• Slide types
• Vertical
• True/False
• Picture
Object
•Correct answer indicator
•Countdown
•Response counter
Converting existing PP presentation
to an interactive slide
• Paste in slide from ordinary PP
• The question must be in the top line and the
answers in the box beneath (as in the
interactive slides you set up from scratch)
• Select ‘Object’ then click on ‘charts’
• Select choice your choice of chart (graph) and
the slide will be converted to an interactive
question slide
Example: What day is it?
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Monday
Not sure
Wednesday
Friday
Sunday
Setting the correct answer
Click here
Modifying an interactive slide
 Add more choices of
answer
 chart will be updated
 Insert object
 Correct answer
indicator
 Insert Countdown
timer, edit the time
Activity 2.
• Create a MCQ as an interactive slide in
TurningPoint
• Add the correct answer
• Insert object to show the correct answer
• Add a count indicator
How to pre-test your interactive
MCQ/session
1. Click here to get drop down menu. Click on
‘Simulated Data’
2. Run presentation – using ‘slide show’
3. Don’t forget to reset to ‘Live polling’ before
you start your session.
Activity 3:
• Use the ‘simulated data function’ and run a
session
• See if you can work out how to run a report
The TurningPoint Showbar
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The showbar appears when running your interactive slides.
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Toggles between % and counts on your chart
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Repoll the Question
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Response Grid, to see which participants have responded
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Non-response Grid
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Indicates the number of responses received during a poll.
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Countdown timer
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Indicates that polling is open and responses will be accepted.
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Polling closed
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Quick check:
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Always start in TurningPoint programme (which will run
PowerPoint). Make sure PowerPoint is not open.
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Make sure the presentation is not in simulated mode
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Have some spare handsets with you
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Make sure students know how to use the handsets
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Check everyone is on the right channel
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Run a test slide to check everything is working
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Run the interactive session.
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Only use a compatible ‘presenter card’
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If saving session data in a teaching room
save to a memory stick
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Re-set the session after saving ready for next time
Activity 4:
Discuss how you could use EVS in your
teaching
Some good practice points when using
EVS….
• Let the teaching approach lead the use of technology
not the other way round
• Always start with a test slide, read out the questions
and answers in full and tell the students when polling is
opened and when it is about to close
• Consider inclusivity and accessibility
• Use formatively before using summatively (Burnstein &
Leaderman 2001).
• When ready to use summatively, ensure expectations
clear and test conditions implemented (and contact an
experienced colleague or the Assessment team for
further support)
Student information
• Handsets are issued to students free of charge
• Replacement handsets carry a charge – equivalent to the loss
of an ID card. N.B. student may be marked as a debtor if
payment outstanding
• Students are responsible for replacing the handset battery
• Giving handsets to another student or being in possession of
another’s handset is considered an academic offence –
equivalent to cheating (like “loaning” an ID card)
• Further help is available on the EVS page within Studynet (via
EVS search on home page or go via LTI site). Put link on the
programme page!
Getting help
• Help Desk tel. 4678
• Hints and Tips postcards
• LTI Knowledge Exchange
– Help with Technology: EVS
– Getting started Camtasia Video
• Software download & online tutorials:
– www.turningtechnologies.co.uk
Any questions