Poll Everywhere Answers

In order to conduct our experiment, our group used a site called “Poll Everywhere.” Poll Everywhere is an application for audience participation. In a classroom setting, it is an easy way to gather live responses. Teachers have the ability to display questions on a two-way screen. Once students put their answers in on the device they are using, the polls update seconds after, and the results can be displayed on the presenting screen. Secondly, our group used 10 Algebra 1 math questions that we created ourselves (Appendix H). In order to project our polls on to the screen, we used the teacher’s desktop computer. The students had the option to use scrap paper if they needed to. Our group also printed out our directions on half sheets of paper.
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Each slide had one poll that had four answer choices. We made two different directions for the non-confederates and the confederates. For the non-confederates, the paper slip described their directions (Appendix F). They were allowed to use scrap paper to solve the questions without a calculator, and they had 30 seconds to complete each poll. The confederates’ paper slips (Appendix G) explained that they were chosen to be the participants in our experiment. We informed them that we needed them to choose the incorrect answer for each question and provided them the wrong answer to choose for each question. Also, we advised them to answer the question as soon as it pops up. Before going into each class to experiment, we were given the total amount of students which allowed us to multiply the total number either by .7 or .3 depending on the percentage of confederates we were testing in that class. When our group went into a class to experiment, we handed out our paper slips to each student but randomly gave out