“…Additionally, ARS can assess student satisfaction throughout and at the end of the course, a metric that is taken into consideration by many prospective higher education students. Several studies (Beaumont, Gousseau, Sommerfeld, Leitao, & Gooi, 2017;Bode et al, 2015;de Oliveira-Santos, Tirapelli, Rodrigues, Domaneschi, & Caldeira Monteiro, 2017;Grzeskowiak, Thomas, To, Reeve, & Phillips, 2015;Mains, Cofrancesco, Milner, Shah, & Goldberg, 2015;Simmons, Cosio, & Lin, 2015) have shown that ARS and conferences and seminars had a positive influence on student participation in class by increasing attention and classmates' participation, interest and learning. However, this does not always translate in higher examinations scores (de Oliveira-Santos et al, 2017;Grzeskowiak et al, 2015).…”