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Student Response Systems In large lecture classes, Personal Response Systems facilitate interaction between faculty and students, promote active learning by the students, and allow the instructor to assess student understanding quickly. Each student purchases a small remote device which transmits signals to a receiver connected to the instructor's computer. When the instructor asks multiple choice questions during the class, students can respond with their remote. Student responses are tallied by the computer for classroom view, providing a point of clarification and/or discussion. A number of instructors at Boston University and nationwide incorporate student response systems into their PowerPoint lectures. After discussion of a topic, a Powerpoint slide poses a multiple-choice question that requires application of the material or expression of opinion about a topic to be discussed. The students respond using their clickers, as in a quiz show. The instructor then views a bar graph showing the frequency of selection of each response choice. The CET has two sets of 32 clickers +receiver (made by eInstruction) for small classes and one set with 100 clickers for a moderately large class. These are available for instructors to borrow for a week or two in order to determine whether the system is advantageous for their classes. Contact the CET if you wish to try it out. Several textbook publishers provide support for portable Personal Response Systems. Contact your publisher representative to see if a personal response system can be bundled with your textbook.
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August 30, 2006 |