"With clickers, you're giving every student a voice, even the introverts," according to Edna Ross, a resource teaching professor and the chair of the University Instructional Technology Committee in ...

Last spring I received an e-mail message from my university’s Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching that read like an advertisement: “If you are thinking of ordering personal response system ...

The students in Deone Zell’s Management 360 class were armed Monday night with more than just textbooks, pens and writing paper. The newest weapon in their educational arsenal? The Response Card XR, ...

Good that you have Michael Bugeja’s article on clickers (“Classroom Clickers and the Cost of Technology,” The Chronicle Commentary, December 5, 2008), and good that it sounds a warning about cost ...

Math students at New Mexico’s Belen High School better pay close attention in class this fall. If they don’t, teachers will know. Belen, which serves a town by the same name about 40 miles south of ...

D) Stress that students answer questions independent of their peers. Classroom response systems (CRS) have a mixed reputation. Studies have suggested that these tools, which allow students to respond ...

Imagine you’re a teacher. Think about grading each quiz and test. Wouldn’t it be great if quizzes could be graded instantly? What if there was a way to have every student respond to every question ...

It was well into the start of the semester at the University of Michigan, and Justin Lomont hadn't missed a single psychology lecture. Attendance was key because the instructor had all of the ...

If not for their eye-catching shade of blue, the small, plastic oblongs would be unnoticeable amid the clutter of papers, book bags, and purses on and around the desks in Kenneth McCreary’s English ...

How many students actually understand what the teacher is explaining? Instead of the dreaded show of hands or expensive classroom clickers, teachers could get an instant read with a new low-cost ...