Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology

Elinor Madigan, an Assistant Professor, had a class of repeat calculus students and decided to try an experiment. She wanted to record the process of solving a problem because static notes don’t provide enough information. Using a tablet computer and the help of a student, she made a narrated recording of problems being solved. These recordings were made available to a group of volunteer students to use to review for quizzes.

Quiz scores for a volunteer group were compared with scores from students taking the same class but not using the recordings for reviews. Although the quiz score results were mixed, the study was very small and informal, so no real conclusions can be drawn at this point. Student feedback indicates that all of the students using the recordings thought they were valuable and would like to have recordings like this available in the future.