Amy Wax: Poll Everywhere
Dr. Amy Wax is a professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She uses Poll Everywhere with classes of 12 to 275 students. She has found their engagement increases when she uses Poll Everywhere. As a result, she also gets information about what they're thinking. Importantly, polls are easy to add to a PowerPoint presentation.
"Poll Everywhere allows you to create poll questions in the format of quite literally a PowerPoint slide that you insert into your regular lecture."
Key Questions:
- Why do you teach with Poll Everywhere?
- How do you get started using it?
Highlights:
- Amy likes Poll Everywhere for engaging students and tracking their responses. She embeds polls directly into her lecture slides.
- See the resources section below.
Key Questions:
- How does it improve the classroom experience?
- What have been students' reactions?
- How has your teaching benefited?
Highlights:
- Poll Everywhere leads to near-complete, simultaneous, low-stakes student participation. Thus, it solves the problem of only a few students raising their hands to a question.
- Amy's students have said Poll Everywhere makes class more fun. It keeps them more alert and attentive.
- From the faculty side of things, Amy can see her students' responses. Thus, polls can serve as learning checks for what students understand from homework readings and segments of lecture.
- A very useful and comprehensive Poll Everywhere Instructor Guide
- To see what types of polls are available: Activity Gallery
- Learn about implementation on the CSULB Poll Everywhere page
