Android-based Student Response System as a Learning Tool in the Classroom

Since traditional education is starting to prove itself less favorable, the study presents active education where learning is more interactive and engaging. By employing new ICT technology and integrating it into common devices we use such us our laptops and mobile phones, active learning can be implemented in the classroom. The objectives of the study are: design a website that serves as the interface and control of the system wherein the student activity and student responses are stored and analyze which stored in a local database; create an Android application that serve as the response device or user input interface; It starts by establishing a single network of devices using a wireless module or a router. Once this network is created, the students' mobile phones can send data through the Android app into the website contained in the instructor's laptop. The data received are then stored in a local database also found in the laptop. The number of users that can be catered by this system is highly dependent on the maximum capacity of the wireless router. The Linksys router used was set to accommodate 255 users. The proposed system was tested and evaluated with 30 students. With the experimental design the transmitted data is consistent with that of the received data. Based on the results obtained and the statistical tool used to treat the data, the proposed system performed with satisfactory results. With further improvement, this can be deployed in classrooms catering to different levels to promote active and outcomes-based learning which is the aim of most, if not all, learning institutions everywhere.