Using Interteaching to Promote Online Learning Outcomes

Abstract

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, educators have been forced to rapidly transition away from in-person learning environments to completely online formats. Many of these educators have had little or no training and experience teaching online, contributing to stress and anxiety. To compound this problem even further, there are a multitude of online learning technologies from which to choose that can be relatively costly and require an intensive production process. In an effort to provide immediate relief to those dealing with this problem, we detail how interteaching, an empirically supported behavioral teaching technique, can be used to cultivate an interactive online learning environment in either an asynchronous or synchronous format. Specifically, we describe some best practices and provide some examples on how to generate active student responding (ASR) as well as provide pinpointed performance-based feedback. We specifically reference the relatively easy-to-use online software Kaltura, but it is hoped that our suggestions inspire others to develop and use these strategies across a variety of platforms in effort to provide evidence-based quality education during this crisis.

Evaluating the use of preparation guides in interteaching versus a quiz alternative

“…A recent meta-analysis by Hurtado-Parrado et al (2022) showed that fewer than 25% of studies included more than five of the seven originally outlined components. For example, pair discussions have sometimes been replaced with small-group discussions (Goto & Schneider, 2010), quality points have not always been used (Saville et al, 2012) or have been further emphasized and enhanced (Rosales et al, 2014), group discussions have been held online (Krebs et al, 2021), and interteaching has been used in larger courses with class times exceeding 1 hr (Scoboria & Pascual-Leone, 2009). These deviations, however, have not changed the comparative success of interteaching as an instructional method (Filipiak et al, 2010).…”