Student Response Systems and Student Engagement in the Science Classroom

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Student Response Systems and Student Engagement
in the Science Classroom
Susan Finazzo, Ph.D., James Battey, Ph.D., Polly
Bouker, M.S. Susannah Lomant, M.S., Peter
Roessle, Ph.D., Jonathon Wetherington, Ph.D.
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Goals

• Increase student engagement
• Increased attendance
• Increased participation
• Improve student content mastery and success
• measured by improved exam scores
• Improve student perceptions of science
• Attitude survey (TOSRA) pre- and post-
• Basic knowledge
• Demographic survey

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Historical Geology

• Polly Bouker, M.S.

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Can we use the clickers today?
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Chemistry

• Peter Roessle, Ph.D.

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Results Indicated Need to Re-address Concept
Clicker questions help me to see when the class
Is not getting it!
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Results Indicated a Misconception
Clicker questions help me to see when there is a
misconception
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Results Indicated Class Understood
Clicker questions let me know when the class gets
it.
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Biology

• James Battey, Ph.D.

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Eukaryotic Oxidative Phosphorylation
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Which letter is..

• 1 In the matrix of the mitochondria?
• 2 Is in the mitochondrial intermembrane
• space
• 3 The site of ATP synthesis?

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iClicker and Exam Points inPrinciples of Biology
II Lecture
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Physics

• Susannah Lomant

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Clicker Quiz03/23/2009
Which one of the following choices is produced
when a net torque is applied to a rigid
object? a) a constant acceleration of the
object b) a constant angular velocity of the
object c) a rotational equilibrium of the
object d) a change in the angular velocity of
the object e) a constant angular momentum of
the object
Physics Susannah E. Lomant
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Clicker Quiz04/06/2009

• When an object is oscillating in simple harmonic
  motion in the vertical direction, its maximum
  speed occurs when the object
• is at its highest point.
• is at its lowest point.
• is at the equilibrium point.
• has the maximum net force exerted on it.
• has a position equal to its amplitude.

Physics Susannah E. Lomant
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Clicker Quiz04/13/2009

• A rock of mass M, with a density twice that of
  water, is suspended in water by a thin massless
  cord.
• The tension in the cord is
• 2Mg.
• Mg.
• Mg/2.
• Zero.

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Physics Susannah E. Lomant
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Human Anatomy and Physiology

• Susan Finazzo, Ph.D.

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