Clickers! Using Personal Response Pads

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Clickers! Using Personal Response Pads
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• Robert S Rycroft
• Professor of Economics
• University of Mary Washington
• Developments in Economics Education Conference
• September 2007

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Clicker Systems

• Turning Point/Turning Technologies
• PRS/Interwrite Learning
• iClicker/Worth and Holtzbrinck Publishers
• CPS/eInstruction

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Clicker Technology
Receiver
Personal Response Pad
Software
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Advantages
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• Requires every student to remain engaged all
  class long
• Increases the comfort zone of quiet students
• Allows instructor to keep tabs on class progress

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Other Uses
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• Take attendance
• Class contests
• Exams
• Integrate withBlackboard andWebCT

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Microeconomics (Fall 2006) using CPS
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Principles of Macroeconomics (Summer 2006 and
Fall 2006) using CPS
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Public Finance (Spring 2006) using CPS
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Principles of Microeconomics (Summer 2006) using
CPS
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Tips for Use and Pitfalls to Avoid
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• Use to drill students on mastery of technical
  material
• Use for opinion polling sparingly
• Use several times per class
• Technical problems the bane of clickers