Clicking for grades? Really? Investigating the use of clickers for awarding grade-points in post-secondary education

Interactive Learning Environments

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 551-561

  White, Peter ^a   Syncox, David ^a   Alters, Brian ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

academic integrity; classroom response systems; clickers; student response systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858976722     PISSN: 10494820     EISSN: 17445191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10494821003612638     Document Type: Article

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