A study about the impact of rewards on student's engagement with the flipped classroom methodology - Jaime Urquiza

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A Study About the Impact of
Rewards on Student’s
Engagement with the Flipped
Classroom Methodology
Jaime Urquiza-Fuentes
ACTIVATE Teaching Innovation Group
Laboratory of Information Technologies in Education – LITE
EDUCON 2023

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Índice
• Introduction
• Educational Context
• Description of the Experience
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusions
The Impact of Rewards on Student’s Engagement with the Flipped Classroom Methodology

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Introduction
• Flipped classroom (FC) requires student’s
engagement
• Promoting student’s engagement in FC:
– Quizzes
– Rewarded quizzes and/or in-class activities
The Impact of Rewards on Student’s Engagement with the Flipped Classroom Methodology

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Índice
• Introduction
• Educational Context
• Description of the Experience
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusions
The Impact of Rewards on Student’s Engagement with the Flipped Classroom Methodology

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Educational Context
• The course:
– Language processors, 2nd semester,
3rd year of CS degree
• The flipped methodology:
– Out-class materials in Moodle:
• Videos + PDF slides
• Forums / Quizzes
– In-class:
• Individual/colaborative tasks
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Educational Context
• The design of the flipped course:
Design of the reward:
– Affects student’s grade
– Based on quizzes grades
– Quizzes must be answered before in-class
sessions
– Tseg: Average grade of quizzes
– Topic test: 10 MCQs with penalties
– Avoid Tseg penalties in the topic test
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Índice
• Introduction
• Educational Context
• Description of the Experience
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusions
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Description of the experience
• Motivation:
– In-class student’s behaviour ≠ quizzes
– Video watching time
– Quiz completion time
• Number of participants: 88
• Data collection: Moodle logs
– 60000 entries
– course module viewed (videos) and quiz
attempt submitted (quizzes)
The Impact of Rewards on Student’s Engagement with the Flipped Classroom Methodology
Mismatch

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Índice
• Introduction
• Educational Context
• Description of the Experience
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusions
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Results
• Number of accesses analyzed: 2558
• Clasification:
– Class preparation
– Ordinary test preparation
– Extraordinary test preparation
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Results
• Students’ behaviours:
– Flipped:
– Reward first:
– Just reward:
The Impact of Rewards on Student’s Engagement with the Flipped Classroom Methodology
Videos Quiz
In-class
activities
Videos Quiz
In-class
activities
Videos
Quiz
In-class
activities
Videos

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Results
• Students’ behaviours:
– Flipped:
– Reward first:
– Just reward:
The Impact of Rewards on Student’s Engagement with the Flipped Classroom Methodology
Videos Quiz
In-class
activities
Videos Quiz
In-class
activities
Videos
Quiz
In-class
activities
Videos

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Índice
• Introduction
• Educational Context
• Description of the Experience
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusions
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Discussion
Flipped behaviour (47.1%):
• Immediate transition from video to quiz
• Only 6.96% in the same day
• Students don’t use videos and quizzes to
prepare in-class activities
• Students use videos to prepare quizzes
• Students see quizzes as part of the grade
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Discussion
Just reward behaviour (47.9%):
• Teamwork approach, two possibilities:
– Team discussion / balanced work
– Free riders
The Impact of Rewards on Student’s Engagement with the Flipped Classroom Methodology
Not all the members
watched the videos

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Discussion
Just reward behaviour (47.9%):
• Teamwork approach, two possibilities:
– Team discussion / balanced work
– Free riders
Reward first behaviour (5%):
• Mixture of Just reward and Flipped
The Impact of Rewards on Student’s Engagement with the Flipped Classroom Methodology
Not all the members
watched the videos

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Índice
• Introduction
• Educational Context
• Description of the Experience
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusions
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Conclusions
• The reward does not increase students’
engagement with FC
• Students see the reward as part of their
grades
• Why this lack of engagement?
– Resistance to change
– Effort demanding
– Lack of experience in self-directed learning
• Solution? Embedding quizzes into videos
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The Impact of Rewards on Student’s Engagement with the Flipped Classroom Methodology