I use clickers for both my IRATS and my T-RATS (I wrote about that last semester). Students like getting the immediate response and not waiting until I grade scantrons to get their results. They also help in ensuring that students have answered every question before they turn in their tests. The reporting software helps me with item analysis and guides my follow up lectures. We also use them for opinion polls and Mid-term and final reviews. I just started using them for peer reviews last semester. It has greatly helped in getting those in. On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Spaulding, Kristina N < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello all, > > > I'm wondering if anyone has used clickers in TBL classes and what > creative ways you've used them. I used to use clickers and loved them (as > did my students), but when I started TBL it was too much for me to juggle > at once. Now that I'm more comfortable with TBL, I'm bringing clickers > back. During each lecture, I put up sample test question at the beginning > of the lecture and again at the end (same questions). I try to write them > so most students can't answer them at the beginning, but can at the end. > This will be the first year I'm doing this using clickers, and it will > give me a good idea of where the students are at before and after each > lecture. I also plan on using them to take anonymous polls now and then. > However, this isn't really TBL specific. I'm hesitant to use them as a > reporting method because then teams can see answers, but now which team is > giving which answer. Any other ideas? Have people had success using them > as part of the RATs? > > > _________________________________________ > > Kristina N. Spaulding > > Doctoral candidate > > Gallup lab > > Department of Psychology > > University at Albany > > HU B68-E > > 442-4786 > > OH: Tue 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM > > Fri 1:00 - 2:30 > > > > -- Herb Coleman, Ph.D Dir. Instructional Computing and Technology Adjunct Professor of Psychology Austin Community College Highland Business Center 5930 Middle Fiskville Rd. Austin, TX 78752 [log in to unmask] 512-223-7746 ******************************************************************************** Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. — Gandalf the Grey from the 2012 motion picture "The Hobbit" *********************************************************************************