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One approach is to not show the responses to the class, but instead ask
"Why might someone answer A? Maybe you ultimately answered with another,
but why might someone have selected this one?" You'll get less reluctance
that way (OTOH, you don't get "ownership" either). I use this with
clickers when I'm doing peer learning (easier to do in large classes than
TBL). I'm pretty sure I saw this in this video by Eric Mazur (who
popularized peer instruction in physics): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwslBPj8GgI 
or in http://www.compadre.org/per/items/detail.cfm?ID=4990 .

Rather than clickers or boards I make up, I use small white boards and
have them show the answers they wrote on the board all at once. This might
work for you too. 

      - Bill


Jennifer asked:

> Hi all,
> 
> I use clickers to have teams submit their responses. After the
> responses are in, I show the chart of responses. One challenge I've
> had in a few cases is that when the large majority of teams select one
> of the responses, then the few teams who select something else seem
> quite reluctant to defend their choice. With the clickers, I can't
> actually see who answered what (only the number selecting each
> response) so I can't immediately call on the teams to explain their
> choice. One thing in John's email yesterday caught my eye - he
> mentioned having students hold up a colored card reflecting their
> answers as well as submitting responses with clickers. But for some of
> my questions, there are as many as 7 or 8 possible responses so I'd
> have to make a lot of cards (and I worry a bit that reducing to just
> four or five answer choices would make things too easy). My current
> solution is to randomly select a team and ask them to say which
> response they chose and explain why they thought that was the BEST
> answer  - and mostly, the other teams will then chime in. But if
> anyone has other ideas, I'd appreciate hearing them...
> 
> Jennifer
> ****************************
> Jennifer Imazeki
> Department of Economics
> San Diego State University
> homepage: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~jimazeki/
> Economics for Teachers blog: http://economicsforteachers.blogspot.com

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