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Engaging High School Students in Cameroon with Exam Practice Quizzes via SMS and WhatsApp

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Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue,

François Guimbretiere,

Nicola DellAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Paper No.: 482, Pages 1 - 13

https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300712

Published: 02 May 2019 Publication History

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We created a quiz-based intervention to help secondary school students in Cameroon with exam practice. We sent regularly-spaced, multiple-choice questions to students' own mobile devices and examined factors which influenced quiz participation. These quizzes were delivered via either SMS or WhatsApp per each student's preference. We conducted a 3-week deployment with 546 students at 3 schools during their month of independent study prior to their graduating exam. We found that participation rates were heavily impacted by trust in the intervening organization and perceptions of personal security in the socio-technical environment. Parents also played a key gate-keeping role on students' digital activities. We describe how this role - along with different perceptions of smartphones versus basic phones - may manifest in lower participation rates among WhatsApp-based users as compared to SMS. Finally, we discuss design implications for future educational interventions that target students' personal cellphones outside of the classroom.

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Index Terms

Engaging High School Students in Cameroon with Exam Practice Quizzes via SMS and WhatsApp
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Computer-assisted instruction
  2. Law, social and behavioral sciences
    1. Sociology
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Ubiquitous and mobile computing
    1. Empirical studies in ubiquitous and mobile computing
    2. Ubiquitous and mobile devices
      1. Mobile phones
      2. Smartphones

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