Minicourse Update
As I mentioned previously, I co-facilitated a four-hour minicourse titled “Teaching with Clickers and Classroom Voting” at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in …
First Day of Class
It’s the start of a new semester at most colleges and universities, so I thought it would be interesting to hear how …
Clicker Questions as Exam Questions
I picked up a few ideas on teaching with classroom response systems at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, DC, last week. …
Article: Smith et al. (2009)
An article in last Friday’s edition of the journal Science on peer instruction, a pedagogy often used with (and enhanced by) clickers, …
Article: Crossgrove & Curran (2008)
Reference: Crossgrove, K., & Curran, K. L. (2008). Using clickers in nonmajors- and majors-level biology courses: Student opinion, learning, and long-term retention …
iPhones as Super-Clickers
Jeff Young blogged about Abilene Christian University’s iPhone initiative yesterday on the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Wired Campus blog focusing on the …
Podcast #1 – An Interview with Ian Beatty
As I was researching my book, I interviewed dozens of college and university faculty members as a way to discover best practices …
Clickers for Peer Assessment
In a recent blog post, Dave Foord, an education consultant in the UK, describes his use of clickers in a sports science …
Classroom Voting Minicourse at the Joint Mathematics Meetings
At the January 2009 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, DC, sponsored by the Americal Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Assocation of America, …
Article: Bunce, VandenPlas, & Havanki (2006)
Reference: Bunce, D. M., VandenPlas, J., & Havanki, K. (2006). Comparing the effectiveness on student achievement of a student response system versus …