AAPT Presentation by Ian Beatty: Addressing Common Concerns about Teaching with Clickers
The summer meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) wraps up in Portland, Oregon, today. There were several talks on …
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 …
More on Flexible Clicker Questions
Just over a year ago, I shared a story here about a clicker question I used in one of my math courses …
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 …
Students Writing Clicker Questions
Eric Tremblay recently blogged about his plans to have his students write clicker questions for him to use during class. He’s not …
More Best Practices for Writing Clicker Questions
My post last week pointing to a few collections of best practices for writing clicker questions seemed to go over well, so …
Best Practices for Writing Clicker Questions
I am frequently asked how one goes about writing effective clicker questions. My usual approach is to share examples of useful clicker …
Leveraging Pre-Class Reading Quizzes
One of the questions I’m asked most often when I present about teaching with clickers is the “coverage” question: How do you …
Multiple Mark Questions
I’ve recently become a fan of the “mark all that apply” type of question my classroom response system facilitates. I call these …
More on the Classroom of the Future
Back in January, I blogged about a New York Times article describing MIT’s Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) classrooms. Just today, Diana …