Utilizing Technology to Enhance Student Engagement: The Use of Student Response Systems in the Classroom

From CTLpedia

Ann Ewing

3:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 17, 2007

LB 145 in the Elsner Library at MCC

My goal was to investigate the effectiveness of student response systems in enhancing student engagement, student learning, and student satisfaction in my classroom. I analyzed test scores and student satisfaction survey responses in my Social Psychology and Statistics courses, comparing one section that implemented the clickers in the classroom to one section that did not in each course. Statistically significant differences were found. The research supports a hypothesis that student response systems can have a positive effect on student learning and student satisfaction.

Ann Tway Ewing received her BA degree in Psychology and MA in Experimental Psychology from Occidental College. She completed her PhD in Educational Psychology at Arizona State University. Dr. Ewing is a native Arizonan and she began her full time teaching career at Mesa Community College in 1987. She is currently chair of the Kaleidoscope Committee and is serving as a research consultant for the CTL. Ann is passionate about teaching and research.

Ann has been active in multiple national psychology organizations. She chartered the MCC chapter of Psi Beta, the National Honor Society for Psychology students, in 1989 and served as the Psi Beta National President in 1995-96. In 2003, she was inaugural chair of American Psychological Association (APA) Psychology Teachers at Community Colleges (PT@CC) -- a national group of teachers organized to address the needs of community college psychology faculty. Ann also served on the Executive Board of the Western Psychological Association (WPA) from 2000-2006. She is a Fellow of WPA and received the WPA Outstanding Teaching Award in 2003 and the WPA Outstanding Service Award in 2006. In 2000, Ann was honored with the National Outstanding Psychology Teacher Award for two year colleges by American Psychological Association's Society for Teaching of Psychology and in 2005 she was voted by MCC psychology students as the Arizona Psychological Association Faculty of the Year. In 2005-06 she was a MIL Fellow and the recipient of MCC's first Distinguished Faculty Award. She has published research articles in /Psychological Record/, /Brain Research Bulletin/, /Journal of Instructional Psychology/ and /Psychology Teacher Network/. and currently serves as field editor for /The General Psychologist/, the journal for Division 1 of the American Psychological Association.