Tuesday, March 10th, 20092:00 pm – 2:30 pm ET
Presented by: Jennifer Kaplan, Michigan State University
Abstract
Central to the recommendations for teaching introductory statistics made by the GAISE committee were the following: foster active learning in the classroom, use assessment to improve and evaluate student learning, and use real data (GAISE, 2006). This session will illustrate how personal response systems (clickers) can be used to address the realization of these three recommendations in large lecture classes (over 70 students). The session will discuss general issues of the implementation of clickers and then provide an example of each of the following three uses of clickers in the classroom: 1) questions designed to highlight common conceptual misunderstandings in statistics, 2) questions designed as review questions for topics already addressed, and 3) questions that were part of a class activity to help students learn a concept.