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The Personal Response System (PRS) enables audience responses to multiple choice questions to be collected quickly, and for a summary of all the answers to be displayed to the whole group immediately, making it a useful tool for promoting classroom discussion. This paper describes its use as a means for assessing students’ understanding of previously learned material, in the context of two consecutive database modules. The PRS was used in the areas of Entity-Relationship diagrams, Relational Algebra, and SQL, and proved to be useful in assessing students’ current level of understanding.
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Purchase, H.C., Mitchell, C., Ounis, I. (2004). Gauging Students’ Understanding Through Interactive Lectures. In: Williams, H., MacKinnon, L. (eds) Key Technologies for Data Management. BNCOD 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27811-5_21
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