2020
DOI: 10.3167/latiss.2020.130105
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The use of Socrative in university social science teaching

Abstract: Socrative is an online platform that allows a teacher to put questions to students through an app on their smart phone or tablet. In existence since 2011, its use is now quite common in university teaching. But is Socrative any good? This article reviews the literature on the device and discusses my research on the use of the app, the first carried out with social science students. The secondary research findings are that students find Socrative easy to use, fun, of genuine benefit to their learning and a medi… Show more

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“…There is also a gaming element: the "Space Race" feature can set up a quiz so that teams of students can compete against one another to launch rockets into space. Besides, the teacher can set whether the correct answer to the given questions is displayed on the app they are using, or only on the front of the teaching room screen [18], [19]. This Socrative application helped teacher to make personalize teaching based on the students' answers.…”
Section: Socrative Applicationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is also a gaming element: the "Space Race" feature can set up a quiz so that teams of students can compete against one another to launch rockets into space. Besides, the teacher can set whether the correct answer to the given questions is displayed on the app they are using, or only on the front of the teaching room screen [18], [19]. This Socrative application helped teacher to make personalize teaching based on the students' answers.…”
Section: Socrative Applicationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They not only facilitate the various use of the teacher but also support the learner to utilize the variety devices, such as notebook, smartphone and tablet to complete the test regardless of the type of device and operating system. There is some software that are accepted for learning management to evaluate the learner's efficiency, such as Kahoot [23], Quizizz.com [24], Socrative.com [25], [26], and Google Form [27], [28], but each of them has different and similar strengths and limitations. Thus, the selection of software bases on the situation and the appropriateness to the subject.…”
Section: Software For Creating the Learner Evaluation Testmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To meet all of the above aims within the distance mode of the educational process, lecturers started to use web-based, online alternatives. This research focuses, specifically, on Socrative as one of the most popular digital instruments for implementing formative assessment (Royer, 2016;Pryke, 2020).…”
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“…The geography of the study includes participants from different regions: Spain (Badia et al, 2016), Croatia (Tretinjak et al, 2015), Turkey, Pakistan (Batool, Mumtaz, Ali & Chughtai, 2018;Moin et al, 2020), Malaysia (Lim, 2017), the UK (Pryke, 2020), Ireland (Rae and O'Malley, 2017), the USA (Guarascio et al, 2017) and others. In Ukraine, the studies of Socrative include field research among medical students (Khaskhachykh, 2018;Potapov et al, 2017) or, as one of the components of adaptive technologies, personal response systems (Zavizion, 2020;Marienko et al, 2020).…”
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