Abstract:

Looking for a way to incorporate more active learning in your instruction sessions, and get quick assessments of your students’ knowledge and skills? An audience response system (ARS) can do this and more. Each student is given a remote control at the beginning of class, and uses that to answer both scripted questions appearing on a presentation screen, as well as “on-the-fly” questions delivered orally or written on a whiteboard. DePauw University librarians are using an ARS and finding that students are more engaged in the sessions, quiet students are more likely to have their voices heard, and that it’s an excellent way to do quick pre-tests, post-tests, and general progress checks throughout the class. It helps the librarian to determine what the students do and don’t know, and it grabs the attention of students who sometimes realize that they did not know everything that they thought they did. This poster will provide details about the system, examples of the types of questions asked, the factors that made it more successful in some classes than others, and comments from students in the sessions.

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