Clicking with Students: Using a Student Response System in Library Instruction
1. Using a Student Response System in Library Instruction
Joe Hardenbrook
Educational Technology Coordinator & Research/Instruction Librarian
Millikin University
2 April 2009
2. No standard terminology
Clickers
Personal Response Systems
Audience Response Systems
Student Response Systems
Wireless Response Systems
Student Polling Systems
Interactive Student Response Systems
Interactive Student Response Systems
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7. Infrared (IR)
Think “TV remote.” Can only send info.
Radio Frequency (RF)
Two-way device. Can verify if answer has been
received.
Some include LCD screens (useful for math & science)
Computers
Classroom control systems. Not a clicker, but similar.
Cell phone / Text Messaging, smart
calculators, etc…can be integrated w/ clicker
software
8. SYSTEMS
Turning Technologies: http://www.turningtechnologies.com/
iClicker: http://www.iclicker.com/
eInstruction/Interwrite: http://www.einstruction.com/
H-ITT: http://www.h-itt.com/
COMPARISON & INFORMATION
UNLV clicker comparison:
http://oit.unlv.edu/clickers/comparisons.html
Vanderbilt Clicker Bib (over 200 entries):
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cft/resources/teaching_resource
s/technology/crs_biblio.htm
University of Waterloo: http://cte.uwaterloo.ca/clickers.html
9. Install TurningPoint software on your computer.
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Write your questions in PowerPoint.
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Install TurningPoint software on the instructor
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computer in the lab or classroom.
Pass out the clickers to the class.
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Bring up your PowerPoint on the screen & start
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polling.
Students’ responses are sent to the receiver (USB
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port).
Display the results.
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14. Ask student opinion-related questions.
Space questions throughout your
presentation.
Encourage active discussion & questions. Just
don’t rely on the clickers!
Try some assessment of learning or
evaluative questions at the end.
Pre- and post-testing
On the question slides: indicate correct
answers and show results of class.
15. Promotes active learning
P-D-P: Poll-Discussion-Poll format
Encourages ALL students to participate
Adapt instruction based on feedback
Explain a concept more thoroughly
Promote discussion
Move on to the next topic
Student feedback: anonymous or indentified
Assessment: download results
Student Learning or Librarian Assessment
16. Getting your clickers back!
Tech issues: installation of software,
compatibility w/ PC vs. Mac, Office 2003 vs.
Office 2007
Coming up with appropriate questions: just don’t
regurgitate content!
Time spent in class
Especially for assessment purposes
“Death by PowerPoint”!!!
17. Demonstration:
Do a search in the databases for articles about NO
CHILD LEFT BEHIND and TESTING.
Then do a new search for NO CHILD LEFT
BEHIND and TESTING and BUSH.
The new search will give you:
▪ The same results
▪ More results
▪ Fewer results
18. Conceptual:
Indentify the key words in the following
statement: HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES SHOULD
BE TESTED FOR DRUGS.
▪ Athletes, drugs, testing
▪ Athletes, drugs
▪ Athletes
▪ Athletes, high school, drugs, testing
19. Recall:
You would use the Library’s online journals link to:
▪ Get the full-text of articles
▪ Search the catalog for books
▪ Access the electronic reserves
20. Evaluative:
The librarian presented the information clearly
and in a well organized manner:
▪ Strongly Agree
▪ Agree
▪ Neutral
▪ Disagree
▪ Strongly Disagree
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Neutral
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Disagree
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Strongly Disagree
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23. Bobkoff, Dan. “In Search of Answers, Teachers Turn to Clickers.” All Tech Considered. NPR.
March 2, 2009. Online: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101343866.
Bugeja, Michael. “Classroom Clickers and the Cost of Technology.” Commentary. Chronicle
of Higher Education. December 5, 2008. Online:
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i15/15a03101.htm.
Corcos, Evelyn & Vivienne Monty. “Interactivity in Library Presentations Using a Personal
Response System.” Educause Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2, April-June 2008. Online:
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM0826.pdf.
Ivy, Krista & Debbie Renfrow. “Clickers Go to the Library.” [PowerPoint]. San Diego State
University. August 7, 2007. Online:
http://library.ucr.edu/?view=services/instruction/clickers.html.
Kaleta, Robert & Tanya Joosten. “Student Response Systems: A University of Wisconsin
System Study of Clickers.” ECAR Research Bulletin, vol. 2007, no. 10. Online:
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERB0710.pdf.
Martyn, Margie. “Clickers in the Classroom: An Active Learning Approach.” Educause
Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 2, 2007. Online: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM0729.pdf.
Matesic, Maura Alicia & Jean M. Adams. “Provocation to Learn: A Study in the Use of
Personal Response Systems in Information Literacy Instruction.” Partnership: The Canadian
Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, vol. 3, no. 1, 2008. Online:
http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/327/802.
Shieh, David. “Going Beyond Classroom Clickers.” Chronicle of Higher Education. March
13, 2009. Online: http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i27/27a01301.htm.
24. Joe Hardenbrook, MLS
Educational Technology Coordinator
& Research/Instruction Librarian
Millikin University
Decatur, IL
jhardenbrook@millikin.edu
Tel: 217.424.3692