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Last spring I received an e-mail message from my university’s Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching that read like an advertisement: “If you are thinking of ordering personal response system ...

"With clickers, you're giving every student a voice, even the introverts," according to Edna Ross, a resource teaching professor and the chair of the University Instructional Technology Committee in ...

Good that you have Michael Bugeja’s article on clickers (“Classroom Clickers and the Cost of Technology,” The Chronicle Commentary, December 5, 2008), and good that it sounds a warning about cost ...

An honors student at Ohio State, a kid in a fifth-grade science class in Kentucky and a deaf student in England all begin their learning experience the same way: with their hand wrapped around a ...

Plenty of peer-reviewed research shows that classroom “clickers” improve student learning when it comes to delivering facts. But a new study found that the devices can actually work against deeper ...

D) Stress that students answer questions independent of their peers. Classroom response systems (CRS) have a mixed reputation. Studies have suggested that these tools, which allow students to respond ...

Math students at New Mexico’s Belen High School better pay close attention in class this fall. If they don’t, teachers will know. Belen, which serves a town by the same name about 40 miles south of ...

If you’ve been in a university class of a certain size, with a professor who wants to get live feedback from the students, you’ve probably been forced to buy a Turning Point “clicker”. Aside from the ...

Michael Matassa is a K-5 math specialist for Colorado’s Boulder Valley School District. Turning from the blackboard, middle-school math and science teacher Megan Fisk asks her students whether anyone ...

Math students at New Mexico’s Belen High School better pay close attention in class this fall. If they don’t, teachers will know. Belen, which serves a town by the same name about 40 miles south of ...