Spiffy Peer Instruction Questions

Abstract

This session takes inspiration from the highly successful "Nifty Assignments" special session, but instead highlights high quality multiple-choice questions that can be used for Peer Instruction. Peer Instruction is a pedagogical practice characterized by asking students to answer challenging, conceptual questions in class. For each question, students individually respond, discuss the question in small groups, and respond again based on their new understanding. Peer Instruction has been widely identified as an important instructional technique in teaching computing. In this session, members of the community will present some of their best Peer Instruction questions along with a short explanation that provides the pedagogical content knowledge indicating why the question is a good question. If you are interested in learning more about Peer Instruction or finding new questions for your course(s), this session is for you.

Publisher

Association of Computing Machinery

Publication Date

3-6-2023

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium On Computer Science Education

Department

Computer Science

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1145/3545947.3569590

Notes

Symposium held from March 15-18, 2023 in Toronto.

Keywords

Peer instruction, Pedagogical content knowledge, Clicker questions, Crowdsourcing, Open educational resources

Language

English

Format

text

Link to Full Text

Share

COinS