Using Remote Response Devices (Clickers) for Peer-to-Peer Evaluation: A Teaching Experience in the Subject of Medical Physics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Castilla-La Mancha

Abstract

The Faculty of Medicine at University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) started in 1998 an innovative method of teaching and learning. Students are divided into groups of 25 people maximum, and they are told to teach their classmates all concepts suggested by their teachers, generally using multimedia presentations. During these sessions, the teachers have to observe and assess the activity. Medical Physics is a four-month long subject taught during the first year of the degree. In this context, we used personal response systems (clickers) not only to increase participation but also to allow students to evaluate their classmates. A total of 95 students participated in the survey.