Abstract:

European Higher Education and incorporation of new degrees, demand reformulation of teaching techniques to efficiently adapt to this new scenario. Teaching-learning process must be focused in learning, emphasizing teacher´s role as facilitator for student knowledge construction.
To asses these needed changes, it is proposed to incorporate a new teaching method. The use of response control remote systems in classrooms. This device allows us to obtain accurate and updated information about level of partial achievement and therefore effectiveness of the process to take necessary steps to correct errors detected during the learning process, in the shortest possible time. Thus, we can establish necessary activities or new ones to achieve the objectives that have not been accomplished.
To this end, we have developed several parallel pilot experiments during the 2010/11 academic year as part of a Teaching Innovation Project. We have proceeded to design a questionnaire to hear from all stakeholders in the process and finally we have run, factor analysis, principal component analysis and agglomerative hierarchical clustering allowing us to obtain results that verify the effectiveness of the device in two ways. On one hand, controls are good motivator for students and on the other, a useful tool for a better understanding of concepts discussed.

Keywords:

Clickers, principal component analysis.