ERIC Number: EJ1034956
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Feb
Pages: 10
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ISSN: EISSN-1077-5315
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Integrating Digital Response Systems within a Diversity of Agricultural Audiences
Sciarappa, William; Quinn, Vivian
Journal of Extension, v52 n1 Article 1FEA7 Feb 2014
Extension educators have new computer-assisted tools as audience response systems (clickers) for increasing educational effectiveness and improving assessment by facilitating client input. From 2010-2012, 26 sessions involving 1093 participants in six diverse client categories demonstrated wide audience acceptance and suitability of clickers in agricultural and horticultural programming. Farmers, ag students, and Master Gardeners provided anonymous information using wireless clickers. Analyzed data was shared in each session. Such user-friendly technology improved pedagogy with rapid and sustained learner engagement and through enhanced peer-to-peer instruction. Pre-post assessment and re-teaching techniques provided documentation for group demographics, educational evaluation, and programmatic impacts.
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Rural Extension, Audiences, Ethnic Diversity, Audience Response Systems, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Pretests Posttests, Participant Satisfaction, Outreach Programs, Extension Education, Usability, Handheld Devices, Audience Response, Teaching Methods, Adult Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New Jersey
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