Poster 3:

Improving Student Engagement – Anonymous Digital Polling in Higher Education Classrooms

Benjamin Gautsch University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

In the beginning of Summer 2023, CETL secured funding to pilot a new digital polling software to use in classrooms. We selected the digital polling tool Mentimeter to investigate if this type of polling could increase active learning in the classroom and improve student engagement and academic belongingness at a large public university with an urban access mission and R1 status. Prior polling research in higher education has largely been limited to basic polling approaches, such as physical cards or clickers that students must buy (Mayhew et al., 2020). Mentimeter offers newer question features, data visualizations, and completely anonymized active learning with no added cost to students…