Anonymous real-time sharing of student responses mitigates evaluation apprehension while preserving individual accountability (authors' account)¶

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q1 i? The authors report that anonymous sharing addresses evaluation apprehension, unbiased evaluation of ideas, and accountability, while retaining the positive aspects of group interaction. → Kowalski 2013

Evidence¶

Kowalski 2013¶

Kowalski, F.V., Kowalski, S.E., Kohl, P.B., and Kuo, V.H. (2013). Technology-Enabled Nurturing of Creativity and Innovation: A Specific Illustration from an Undergraduate Engineering Physics Course. https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.2434 doi:10.48550/arxiv.1308.2434

q1 · i? · the article prints no effect size for this finding · design · r1

Authors' interpretive discussion (type e) of how the technology addresses the four documented ways groups discourage creativity: the article states responses "can be shared anonymously with the audience and no one needs to fear embarrassment," while the instructor can view who submitted each response, establishing individual accountability. No test of these effects is reported.

"The anonymity of the responses also allows unbiased evaluation of all ideas, regardless of the gender , race, or social status of the student source."

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