Like Harry, I very much like this book. If one is doing much with
clickers, it would be a mistake not to have it. He's also got a blog at
http://derekbruff.com/teachingwithcrs/ (and this very question is there
now).
Here's what I do (this idea comes from Dirk Mateer of Penn State). Every
few classes, well into the class, call a set of randomly selected names
from students in the class and have them show their IDs (say to your TA)
during a break. If they had clicker responses that day but nobody came
up, give them a zero clicker grade for the course. Of course, the latter
point has to be on the syllabus.
- Bill
Harry said:
> Derek Bruff published a book on the use of clickers just last year.
> Lots of good practical information and strategies to deal with issues
> like this from a wide variety of faculty he interviewed.
> http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_5?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-
> keywords=bruff+derek&sprefix=bruff
>
> Harry
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: More clicker responses than students in the room
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> We don't have a great way to deal with this....but a few instructors
> have
> just seized both clickers....and not returned them till the students
> came to
> office hours and explained
>
> The issue here might be how points are awarded.....here if students
> respond
> 80% of the time they get full marks....this calms the students down when
> batteries go dead, clickers are forgotten, or people are sick
>
> Here in engineering we award points just for participation (answer does
> not
> need to be right)
>
> In Science here they award both participation and correctness
>
>
>
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> > From: Michael Sweet <[log in to unmask]>
> > Reply-To: Michael Sweet <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:17:48 -0600
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> > Subject: More clicker responses than students in the room
> >
> > . . . means someone in the room has an absent friend's clicker and is
> cheating
> > for them.
> >
> > Anyone run into this?
> >
> > Got any clever, low-hassle methods for identifying the culprits with
> classes
> > of 100-300?
> >
> > -M
> >
> >
> >
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