Do clickers improve exam performances?
To date, little research evidence is available at the UofA or in the research literature with respect to whether the effective use of an SRS actually will improve students’ performance on exams. For example, in three UofA courses in Fall 2007, about two-third of student opinions were in agreement that “SRS questions helped them to improve exam performances.” In the literature Carnaghan, C., & Webb, A. (2005) find some evidence that exam performance improvement is associated with SRS usage, but only for those exam questions most closely related to the questions displayed in class and no improvement for exam questions unrelated to class questions. Assessment of the effects of student response systems on student learning and attitudes over a broad range of biology courses by R.W. Preszler, A Dawe, C B Shuster & M Shuster (2007) show that the increased use of a student response system had a positive influence on students performance on exam questions across six biology courses. Recent rese
