1. Engaging Your Students: Using Socrative
Dr. Paul Wilson, Lecturer (Education)
School of Psychology

2. Download Socrative Connect to the QUB WiFi
Go to the app-store on your mobile and search “Socrative Student”
Available for Free on apple, android and microsoft handsets
Otherwise you can go to in your web browser
NB Socrative uses a small amount of data to download and operate, so make sure you are on WiFi!

3. Aims Discuss how to engage students Overview of Socrative
Demo some Socrative Examples
Introduce the concept of the Flipped Lecture
Experience and Issues

4. Why Engage?

5. Why Engage?

6. Why Engage? HEA Student Engagement Review (2010) Improved:
Critical Thinking Skills & Cognitive Development
Self-Esteem
Resilience/Persistence
Student Satisfaction
Grades

7. What is Engagement? Coates (2007) Active and collaborative learning
Participation in academically challenging activities
Formative communication with teaching staff
Involvement in educational experiences
Feeling legitimised and supported by the academic community

8. Interactive Learning Socrative - Online Personal Response System
Revision Lectures
MCQs across module content
Statistics Lectures
Quick free-response questions mid-lecture to check understanding
Conceptual Issues Lectures (Flipped)
Free response questions to practise critical thinking
Exit Tickets
End of lecture learning feedback

9. Revision Lecture Socrative - Online Personal Response System
From Level 2 Individual Differences Module
Room Name: CEDSEM
Benefits:
Can be teacher paced or student paced
Lecturer can address major misunderstandings
Students get to test their module knowledge with formative feedback at a time that suits them

10. Statistics Lecture From Level 2 Methods and Statistics Module
Benefits:
Breaks up theoretical lecture content
Students practise their learning & get instant feedback
Lecturer can check understanding of the room

11. Reliability
Another way to say it… A reliable measure is free from random error A valid measure is free from random error and systematic error

13. Conceptual Issues Lecture
Flipped Lecture
Students asked to read a textbook chapter to refresh their memory of Freudian Theory in advance of lecture – so that they can discuss conceptual issues associated with metaphor use, development of theory etc.
In class, questions were posed and they texted in answers….

15. Conceptual Issues Lecture
Benefits:
Students engage with content and apply their learning from across the module
Share perspectives and different points of view
See critical thinking in action
Lecturer gives formative feedback on responses
Highlight great answers from not so good ones

16. General Benefits Maintains student attention
Teaching keeps pace with the room
Continuous formative feedback
Participation for shy students
Encourages revision behaviours
Promotes collaborative learning
No clicker collection time costs
Intuitive setup
Class responses available for download (.xls)
Class Register upload for tracking
Creates pdf version of quizzes for use with disability students
Individual and group feedback pdfs also available

17. Challenges Non-compatible devices Poor WiFi signal
App sometimes hangs (very rare)
Technophobes
Keeping it clean
Students demand more!

18. Thanks for listening
Questions?