Journal Article

Academic Achievements and Satisfaction of the Clicker-Aided Flipped Business English Writing Class

Yu Zhonggen, Wang Guifang

2016

Overview

The flipped classroom has been achieving a great success in teaching innovation. This study, aiming to determine the effectiveness of the flipped model in business English writing course, combined the quantitative with the qualitative research methods. Participants were randomly selected from undergraduate students majoring in business English. The research instruments in this study included a satisfaction scale, a Business English Writing Test, and a semi-structured interview. The research procedure was made up of a pretest-treatment-posttest design. Both hypotheses were accepted and it was concluded that (1) the flipped business English writing classroom brought about better academic achievements than the traditional one, and (2) the flipped business English writing classroom was more satisfactory than the traditional one. Future studies could pivot on different courses and expand the research scopes to examine the effectiveness of the flipped classroom.

• Publisher: International Forum of Educational Technology ＆ Society,International Forum of Educational Technology & Society
• Subject: Academic Achievement / Academic learning / At Risk Students / Audience Response Systems / Basic writing / Blended Learning / Business / Business communication / Business English / Class Activities / Critical Thinking / Distance education / Educational activities / Educational Facilities Improvement / Educational research / Educational Technology / English language / Flipped classroom / Flipped classroom model / Foreign Countries / Full Length Articles / Group Discussion / Homework / Hypothesis Testing / In Person Learning / Independent Study / Influence of Technology / Information Literacy / Information Technology / Innovations / Instructional Improvement / Instructional Innovation / Interviews / Learner Engagement / Learning Activities / Learning Modules / Learning Strategies / Literature Reviews / Majors (Students) / Mathematics Instruction / Methods / Online learning / Outcomes of Education / Participant Satisfaction / Pretests Posttests / Qualitative Research / Satisfaction / Self Efficacy / Semi Structured Interviews / Statistical Analysis / Study and teaching / Teachers / Technology Uses in Education / Undergraduate Students / Video Technology / Writing Instruction