TechnoCATs: Classroom Assessment Techniques with Clickers
Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are simple, non-graded, usually anonymous, in-class activities designed to give you and your students useful feedback on the …
Microsoft Makes Some Real Mischief in the Classroom
Have you seen the new product (in beta) from Microsoft called Mouse Mischief? I heard about it on Twitter a few weeks …
Article: James, Barbieri, & Garcia (2008)
Reference: James, Mark C., Barbieri, F., & Garcia, P. (2008). What are they talking about? Lessons learned from a study of peer …
Article: Crouch & Mazur (2001)
Reference: Crouch, C. H., & Mazur, E. (2001). Peer instruction: Ten years of experience and results. American Journal of Physics, 69(9), 970-977. …
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 on Capitol Hill
Last week teacher Lisa Short of Gaithersburg Middle School in Maryland shared her perspectives on educational technology with the education committee of …
Clickers in Small Political Science Courses
It was @RogerFreedman who pointed me (via Twitter) to this short essay about the use of clickers in small political science classes. …
Clickers in Upper-Division Physics
A couple of weeks ago, Stephanie Chasteen shared a series of blog posts on teaching with clickers in upper-division physics courses: Part …
Article: Willoughby & Gustafson (2009)
Here’s part four of student participation week. I’m blogging all week about recent research on the impact of teaching with clickers on …
Article: Lucas (2009)
Here’s part two of student participation week. I’ll be blogging all week about recent research on the impact of teaching with clickers …