Presented by: Tiffany Hebb, Kathryn Courtland Millis and Krista Knapp
Looking for a way to incorporate more active learning in your instruction sessions, and get quick assessments of your students’ knowledge and skills? An audience response system (ARS) can do this and more. Each student is given a remote control at the beginning of class, and uses that to answer both scripted questions appearing on a presentation screen, as well as “on-the-fly” questions delivered orally or written on a whiteboard. DePauw University librarians are using an ARS and finding that students are more engaged in the sessions, quiet students are more likely to have their voices heard, and that it’s an excellent way to do quick pre-tests, post-tests, and general progress checks throughout the class. It helps the librarian to determine what the students do and don’t know, and it grabs the attention of students who sometimes realize that they did not know everything that they thought they did. This poster will provide details about the system, examples of the types of questions asked, the factors that made it more successful in some classes than others, and comments from students in the sessions.
The information (including content and links) in this guide will not likely be updated after the time of the presentation. Please contact the presenter(s) with any questions.
Overviews:
7 Things You Should Know About... Clickers. Educause Learning Initiative. Available at http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7002.pdf.
Johnson, Chris. (2004). Clickers in Your Classroom. Wakonse-Arizona E-Newsletter, 3(4). Available at http://clte.asu.edu/wakonse/ENewssletter/studentresponse_idea.htm.
More in-depth:
Banks, David A. (2006). Audience Response Systems in Higher Education: Applications and Cases. Hershey, PA: Information Science Pub.
Beatty, Ian. (2004). Transforming Student Learning with Classroom Communication Systems. Educause Center for Applied Research Research Bulletin, 3. Available at http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERB0403.pdf.
Beatty, Ian D., et al. (2006). Designing Effective Questions for Classroom Response System Teaching. American Journal of Physics, 74(1), 31-39.
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Fies, Carmen Hedwig. (2005). Classroom Response Systems: What Do They Add to an Active Learning Environment? Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin. Available at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2005/fiesc84685/fiesc84685.pdf.
Guthrie, Rand W. & Anna Carlin. (2004). Waking the Dead: Using Interactive Technology to Engage Passive Listeners in the Classroom. Proceedings of the Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems. Available at http://www.mhhe.com/cps/docs/CPSWP_WakindDead082003.pdf.
Lightstone, Karen. (2006). How Remote Responders Affect Teaching. The Teaching Professor, 20(3), 8.
Robertson, Lorraine J. (2000). Twelve Tips for using a Computerized Interactive Audience Response System. Medical Teacher, 22(3), 237-39.
Silliman, Stephen E. and Leo McWilliams. (2004). Observations on Benefits/Limitations of an Audience Response System. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Available at http://www.asee.org/acPapers/2005-1686_Final.pdf.
Somebody else's bibliography
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/CFT/resources/teaching_resources/technology/crs_biblio.htm
