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Use of Clickers in Education

Overview

The Student Response System otherwise known as Clickers is a technology tool that can be used to assess student learning and promote student engagement. (Martyn, 2007)

Equipment need to assure a workable system includes:

Computer LCD projector Promethium Board or Screen Clickers

Types of clickers

Types of clickers

Equipment Needed to Set-Up Clickers

Handheld remote that students use to respond to multiple choice questions

Laptop of personal computer (PowerPoint Presentation)

Overhead screen

LCD projector

Clicker Use in Middle School

Use of Clickers in Middle School

Clickers as an Assessment Tool in a Middle School Classroom

The Clickers allow teachers to address questions about the lesson and assess student comprehension of the lesson.

This can be done immediately because of the response that students provide with the Clickers

Clickers as an Assessment Tool Cont.

To start the assessment, a PowerPoint is created with a set of math questions that has multiple choice answers.

The Clickers are labeled by giving each student a number.

As the slides are displayed, the students use the Clicker to give their response by choosing the correct letter

Clickers as an Assessment Tool Cont.

The teacher is able to tell if a student is struggling based on the length of time he/she takes to respond.

Clues are given to help the student with the answer.

Visual Display

After each answer is scored a graph is displayed to give a percentage of right and wrong answers.

Based on the graph, the teacher can determine the students’ level of understanding and plan further instruction

Use of Clickers in Senior High School

ActivEpressions for Instruction

1. How do clickers work?a) simulates a remote controlb) work with promethean board

2. The process to create an activity utilizing ActivEpressionsa) create an activityb) register each clicker

3. Type of responses students can submit using the clicker

Sample Question

ActivEpressions for Instruction

ActivEpressions for Instruction

4). Activitiesa) teacher create activities b) Use activities within softwarec) promethium website resourcesWWW.prometheanplanet.com/en/search/resources/

5). Student engagement

a) independent b) collaborativelyc) visuald) different learning styles

Sample Question

6. ActivExpressions benefits

a) immediate response b) opportunity to evaluate student knowledgec) differentiating instructiond) grouping students by abilitye) Promotes students interactionsf) increase curriculum rigorg) teacher gives students immediate feedbackh) saves time and work – correcting worki) adaptable to any lesson and subject

Sample Question

Use of Clicker in Higher Education

Advantages of Clickers in Education

Provides immediate feedback

Facilitates discussion

Alerts faculty of a need for remediation

Affords faculty the ability to quiz student

Track attendance

Grades student participation

Works will in large classroom environment

Increases participation in class

Addresses multiple learning styles of students

Collect demographics

Conduct a survey / poll students

Used with case studies

Used in large or small groups

Grades and stores students responses

Provides student comfort in responding to questions

Additional Uses of Clickers

Disadvantage in the Use of Clickers

Time and effort required to incorporate clicker use into the lesson

Lack of faculty buy-in

Aversion to the use of new technology

Designing good questions to incorporate into the lesson

Cost may be a factor

References

ActivExpressions, http://www.prometheanplanet.com/documents/uk-us/pdf/support/user-guides-docs/lrs/activexpression-quick-start-guide.pdf

 Berry, J. (2009). Technology support in nursing education: Clickers in the classroom. Nursing

Education Perspective , 30 (5), 295 - 298. Filer, D. (2010). Everyone's answering: Using technology to increase classroom participation.

Nursing Education Perspectives , 31 (4), 247 - 250. Martyn, M. (2007). Clickers in the classroom: An active learning approach. EDUCAUSE Quarterly.

Retrieved August 31, 2011 from http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSEQuarterly Promethium, www.prometheanplanet.com/en/search/resources/ Sevian, H., & Robinson, W. E. (2011). Clickers promote learning in all kinds of classes-small and

large, graduate and undergraduate, lecture and lab. Journal of College Science Teaching , 40 (3), 14 - 18.