SURVEY OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' PERCEPTION OF SOCRATIVE APPLICATION IN ONLINE FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN, NIGERIA
Abstract
This paper employed the descriptive survey design type to evaluate pre
service teachers' opinion on the use of Socrative application in online
formative assessment of students in the Educational Technology
Department in the University of llorin. The sample for the study is allthe 300
and 400 level pre-service teachers made up of 201 males and I58 females in
the 2018/2019 academic session who partook in the experimental study.
Data was collected using an adapted instrument from Onasanya,
Otemuyiwa and Onasanya (2019) tagged, Questionnaire on Pre-service
Teachers' Perception of Socrative (pPTPS) The instrument was face
validated by 3 lecturers fromthe department; their comments and
observations were used to modify the instrument. The instrument was pilot
tested with 40 students. To determine the reliability coefficient,Cronbach
Aplha was employed. Ir yielded.76, .78, .83 and .87 values in sections 'A',
'B', 'C' and 'D'. The instrument was designed following four points weight
Likert rating: Strongly Disagree (SD) --I point; Disagree (D) - 2 points;
Agree (A) -- 3 points and Strongly Agree (SA) -- 4 points. Google form was
employed in administering the questionnaire to the participants through
https://bit.ly/2nefmWX, a link that was ealier generated by cropping the
instrument. The participants accessed it via their browsers. The return rate
was 96.9 %, which is
348 of the 359 respondents.Data collected was
analysed using frequency counts, percentages and a mean set value of 2.50
as "agree or accept'to answer the research questions. Independent t-test
was used to test the two hypotheses that guided the study. Results from the
study showed that Socrative application was easy to use, efficient and
gender-friendly in online formative assessment. It was recommended that
Socrative application should be employed in the conduct of online formative
assessment, especially for pre-service teachers in educational programmes.
Keywords: Online Formative Assessment, Socrative Application and Pre-Service
Teachers' Perception
Otemuyiwa, Bridget I. & Kanu, Judith A.
SURVEY OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' PERCEPTION OF SOCRATIVE APPLICATION IN ONLINE FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN, NIGERIA
Abstract This paper employed the descriptive survey design type to evaluate pre service teachers' opinion on the use of Socrative application in online formative assessment of students in the Educational Technology Department in the University of llorin. The sample for the study is allthe 300 and 400 level pre-service teachers made up of 201 males and I58 females in the 2018/2019 academic session who partook in the experimental study. Data was collected using an adapted instrument from Onasanya, Otemuyiwa and Onasanya (2019) tagged, Questionnaire on Pre-service Teachers' Perception of Socrative (pPTPS) The instrument was face validated by 3 lecturers fromthe department; their comments and observations were used to modify the instrument. The instrument was pilot tested with 40 students. To determine the reliability coefficient,Cronbach Aplha was employed. Ir yielded.76, .78, .83 and .87 values in sections 'A', 'B', 'C' and 'D'. The instrument was designed following four points weight Likert rating: Strongly Disagree (SD) --I point; Disagree (D) - 2 points; Agree (A) -- 3 points and Strongly Agree (SA) -- 4 points. Google form was employed in administering the questionnaire to the participants through https://bit.ly/2nefmWX, a link that was ealier generated by cropping the instrument. The participants accessed it via their browsers. The return rate was 96.9 %, which is 348 of the 359 respondents.Data collected was analysed using frequency counts, percentages and a mean set value of 2.50 as "agree or accept'to answer the research questions. Independent t-test was used to test the two hypotheses that guided the study. Results from the study showed that Socrative application was easy to use, efficient and gender-friendly in online formative assessment. It was recommended that Socrative application should be employed in the conduct of online formative assessment, especially for pre-service teachers in educational programmes. Keywords: Online Formative Assessment, Socrative Application and Pre-Service Teachers' Perception