COMMUNITY PROFILE

Clicking for Success

The professional learning community at Marietta College will focus on the use of classroom response systems (CRS). The project, which will be titled Clicking for Success, will explore the use of CRS (commonly called ‘clickers’) in a face-to-face setting for soliciting student feedback, stimulating discussions, and assessing student outcomes. Learning community members represent a wide range of disciplines – from physics to communication. Each member has some experience using this technology.  The learning community will offer the opportunity for members to share experiences, help each other resolve problems and develop the beginning of a best-practices manual

The goals of this project are:

• Determine best practices in using classroom response system for a variety of classroom activities.
• Create sharable templates to facilitate incorporation into the classroom by other teachers.
• Contribute to the research base on the effectiveness of classroom response systems

One obstacle to the incorporation of the clickers in the classroom is the commitment of initial time required to create questions for the first time. Although several question templates are included in the TurningPoint program, these templates are in the forms of individual slides, not whole presentations. We would like to create templates that professors can use and alter for entire slide shows for specific purposes. One purpose would be review; another would be enhancement of critical thinking skills; and a third would be guiding students in inquiry methods and discovery-type learning.

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