"Our university is exploring the use of Student Response Systems. Students buy or receive a clicker that can be used to register individual responses to questions and provide comparative data. Do you have any recommendations about alternative systems available, comments about using the devices from instructor or student perspectives, or references on the topic? Alternatively, any comments
about this idea in general?"
In his POD post of 10 May 2005 13:15:55-0500 titled "Story about clickers in BusinessWeek Online," Ronald Ayers (2005) wrote:
"The May 7 Business Week Online has an article on classroom response systems. What's nice about the article is that it mentions the need for faculty using clickers to adapt their course design and pedagogy to make the most effective use of the technology. The article can be found at
<http://www.businessweek.com/ap/tech/D89UDJI00.htm?campaign_id=3Dapn_t ech_=down>."
The BusinessWeek report mentions "clicker" use in classes in "Ethics and Public Policy" by Ross Cheit of Brown, in Chemistry by Stephen Bradford of the Univ. of Southern California, and in Physics by Eric Mazur of Harvard [see Crouch & Mazur (2003)].
As Ayers indicates, Business Week's "clickers" are also know as "Classroom Response Systems" (CRS). Other popular designations are "Classroom Communication Systems" (CCS) and "Student Response Systems" (SRS).
In a post [Hake (2004a)] titled "Classroom Communication Systems," I made five points regarding the use of CCS and listed 62 references to the relevant literature. That was followed by a post "Classroom Communication Systems - Additional References" [Hake (2004b)] that contained 11 more CCS reference given by David Meltzer in a post to PhysLrnR [Meltzer (2004)].
Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University 24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake> <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>
REFERENCES
Ayers, R. "Story about clickers in BusinessWeek Online," POD post of 10 May 2005 13:15:55-0500, online at <http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0505&L=pod&O=D&P=7411>.
Crouch, C.H. & E. Mazur. 2001. "Peer Instruction: Ten years of experience and results," Am. J. Phys. 69: 970-977; online at
<http://mazur-www.harvard.edu/library.php>, search "All Education Areas" for author "Crouch" (without the quotes).
Hake, R.R. 2004a. "Classroom Communication Systems," online at
<http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0412&L=pod&O=D&P=24855>. Post of 18 Dec 2004 15:00:07-0800 to POD, AERA-C, AERA-D, AERA-J, AERA-K, ASSESS, DrEd, EvalTalk, PhysLrnR, and STLHE-L.
Hake, R.R. 2004b. "Classroom Communication Systems - Additional References," online at <http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0412&L=pod&P=R22831&I=-3>.
Post of 22 Dec 2004 11:03:41 -0800 to POD, AERA-C, AERA-D, AERA-J,
AERA-K, ASSESS, DrEd, EvalTalk, PhysLrnR, and STLHE-L.
Meltzer, D. 2004. Re: Classroom Communication Systems." PhysLrnR post of 18 Dec 2004 19:16:58-0600; online at
<http://listserv.boisestate.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0412&L=physlrnr&F=&S=
&X=0988E219B818270BC1&[EMAIL PROTECTED]&P=3523>.
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