Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments

Teaching with Classroom Response SystemsThis innovative book offers faculty across disciplines a hands–on guide for incorporating classroom response systems into their classrooms. The use of classroom response systems, or "clickers," which enable instructors to rapidly collect and analyze student responses to questions during class, has proven to both engage students in course material and provide valuable feedback on student learning and perspectives for instructors. Derek Bruff—an expert on the use of classroom response systems—includes illustrative examples of the range of questions that can be used effectively with clickers, such as conceptual, procedural, critical thinking, opinion, and student experience questions. Based on the author′s seven years of experience and interviews with fifty instructors from a variety of disciplines and institutions, the book explores key strategies, ideas, and suggestions for successfully incorporating a classroom response system in a class of any size.
Praise for Teaching with Classroom Response Systems
"No other available resource on teaching with clickers rivals Bruff′s amazingly thorough treatment. Not only does he explain the many ways instructors can use them to enhance student engagement and learning, he also provides invaluable advice on writing productive multiple–choice questions (many samples provided), responding to different clicker results, and balancing clicker use with content coverage."
—LINDA B. NILSON, director, Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, Clemson University, and author, Teaching at Its Best and The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map

Spis treści:
Preface.
The Author.
1. Engaging Students with Clickers.
Generating Classwide Discussions.
Generating Small–Group Discussions.
Creating Times for Telling.
Structuring Class Time.
Making Class More Fun.
2. Assessing Students with Clic kers.
Uncovering Student Learning.
Evaluating Student Learning.
3. A Taxonomy of Clicker Questions.
Content Questions.
Process Questions.
4. Teaching Choices.
Use of Class Time.
Writing Questions.
Student Response, Participation, and Grading.
Classroom Choices.
Small Classes.
5. Technical and Logistical Choices.
Technical Challenges.
Vendor Selection and Adoption.
Supporting and Promoting the Use of Clickers.
Low–Tech Options.
High–Tech Options.
6. Why Use Clickers?
Increased Student Participation.
Increased Student Engagement.
Frequent Feedback on Student Learning.
Final Suggestions.
References.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:

The author Derek Bruff is an assistant director at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and a senior lecturer in the Vanderbilt Department of Mathematics. Formerly he was a faculty preceptor in the Harvard University Department of Mathematics, teaching several courses and coordinating multisection calculus courses.

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Teaching with Classroom Response SystemsThis innovative book offers faculty across disciplines a hands–on guide for incorporating classroom response systems into their classrooms. The use of classroom response systems, or "clickers," which enable instructors to rapidly collect and analyze student responses to questions during class, has proven to both engage students in course material and provide valuable feedback on student learning and perspectives for instructors. Derek Bruff—an expert on the use of classroom response systems—includes illustrative examples of the range of questions that can be used effectively with clickers, such as conceptual, procedural, critical thinking, opinion, and student experience questions. Based on the author′s seven years of experience and interviews with fifty instructors from a variety of discipline s and institutions, the book explores key strategies, ideas, and suggestions for successfully incorporating a classroom response system in a class of any size.
Praise for Teaching with Classroom Response Systems
"No other available resource on teaching with clickers rivals Bruff′s amazingly thorough treatment. Not only does he explain the many ways instructors can use them to enhance student engagement and learning, he also provides invaluable advice on writing productive multiple–choice questions (many samples provided), responding to different clicker results, and balancing clicker use with content coverage."
—LINDA B. NILSON, director, Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, Clemson University, and author, Teaching at Its Best and The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map