Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

12-2022

Abstract

The question whether cold calls increase student engagement in the classroom has not been conclusively answered in the literature. This study describes the automated system to implement unbiased, randomized cold calling by posing a question, allowing all students to think first and then calling on a particular student to respond. Since we already have a measure of the level of student engagement as the self-reported classparticipation entries from the students, its correlation to cold calling is also further studied. The results show that there is a statistically significant increase in the class participation reported, and therefore in student engagement, in the course for which the cold-calling system was implemented. Finally, along with the conclusions, the future plans and the limitations of this study are explained.

Keywords

student engagement, class participation, cold calls

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | Higher Education

Research Areas

Intelligent Systems and Optimization

Publication

2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE); Hong Kong, December 4-7: Proceedings

First Page

699

Last Page

702

ISBN

9781665491174

Identifier

10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00122

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00122

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