Learning about Teaching… and about Learning – Two New Podcasts
It’s summertime, which means I’m busier than usual, given all that we do at the Center for Teaching to get ready for …
Clickers in Psychology: Change-Ups, Recaps, and Times for Telling
The Educational Support Team at the School of Arts and Social Sciences (ESTSASS) at the City University London recently posted a six-minute …
Research on Classroom Respsonse Systems at the 2011 AERA Conference
Dan Robinson, an associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, let me know that several of his …
Asking Students to Write Their Own Clicker Questions in Psychology
Over on the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching blog, my Vanderbilt colleague Isabel Gauthier, professor of psychology, has shared her experiences asking …
Numeric Response Questions in History Courses
Maybe this is obvious to others, but I hadn’t thought of this particular use of numeric-response clicker questions, shared with me by …
Article: Mayer et al. (2009)
Reference: Mayer, R. E., Stull, A., DeLeeuw, K., Almeroth, K., Bimber, B., Chun, D., Bulger, M., Campbell, J., Knight, A., & Zhang, …
Clickers in Very Large Classes
Last month, Campus Technology published an interview with Edna Ross, who teaches 350-student psychology courses at the University of Louisville. I interviewed …
Article: Stowell & Nelson (2007)
Reference: Stowell, J. R., & Nelson, J. M. (2007). Benefits of electronic audience response systems on student participation, learning, and emotion. Teaching …