Using Twitter as a diagnostic teaching and learning assessment tool

Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, EAEEIE 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 73-76

  Karaoǧlan, Bahar ^a   Candemir, Cemre ^a   Haytaoǧlu, Elif ^a   Algin, Gul Boztok ^a   Demirci, Sercan ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

diagnostic assessment; learning assessment; lecture tuning; microblogging; twitter

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TEACHING;

DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT; HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS; LEARNING ASSESSMENT; MICROBLOGGING; MULTIPLE CHOICE; TEACHING AND LEARNING; TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS; TWITTER;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84906771672     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EAEEIE.2014.6879390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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