Teaching with classroom response systems: creating active learning environments

Teaching with Classroom Response Systems features examples of the wide variety of types of questions that can be used effectively with classroom response systems, or ‘clickers,’ including conceptual, procedural, critical thinking, opinion, and student experience questions. Bruff offers many useful ways to structure class time with clickers to engage and assess students, including advicefor using clickers in support of small group and class-wide discussion as well as formative and summative assessment. The book also addresses the logistical, technical, and pedagogical challenges frequently faced by instructors teaching with clickers and strategies for encouraging and supporting the use of clickers on college and university campuses. The examples, advice, and best practices described in the book are gleaned from interviews with dozens of faculty at different types of higher education institutions from many different disciplines, as well as from the existing research literature on the effectiveness of the technology for teaching. Bruff shows how clickers can be used for classes from 10 to 400 students, and include multiple-choice and free-response questions. Disciplines will include History, English, Communication Studies, Language Instruction, Biological Sciences, Physics, Veterinary Medicine, Chemistry, Mathematics, Psychology, Philosophy, Health and Physical Education, Environmental Sciences, and Pharmacy.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-28893-1
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 10/03/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés