Instructor perceptions of using a mobile-phone-based free classroom response system in first-year statistics undergraduate courses

International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1041-1056

  Dunn, Peter K ^a   Richardson, Alice ^b   McDonald, Christine ^c   Oprescu, Florin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

classroom response systems; clickers; CRS; statistics; teaching; undergraduate; VotApedia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870505617     PISSN: 0020739X     EISSN: 14645211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0020739X.2012.678896     Document Type: Article

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