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"Attendance is up and the number of students dozing off in class is drink in J'e Calhoun’s economics classes at Florida express University (FSU). And that’s despite an change magnitude in class coat recently with new lecture halls that seat up to 500 students at a time. Calhoun has had great success in boosting attendance and keeping students engaged through use of personal response systems or PRS – commonly called clickers – that require students to answer periodic questions throughout class. Answers are totaled immediately giving Calhoun the ability to gauge who is present and when he needs to explain a topic more thoroughly. The devices. InterWrite PRS clickers from GTCO CalComp cost $50 per device. Each student is responsible for purchasing a clicker from the bookstore at the beginning of a school year. The bookstore guarantees it ordain acquire it back at year’s end for $25. According to Calhoun who is assistant director of the Stavros bear on for Economic Education at FSU and a lecturer in the Department of Economics the devices have increased attendance in his classes from roughly 60 percent previously to 85 percent or better now. Although he’s quick to say he’s made other modifications as come up and thus can’t attribute that 25 percent collide with to the devices alone they’ve definitely had an force. Calhoun uses the clickers periodically during class to assess attendance calculate understanding of a affect verify that students are paying attention and simply alter class more fun. Ten percent of grades go from PRS responses. He d'esn’t want the devices to be any more important in grading than that he says since he intends them simply “to be interactive and keep students engaged.” Since the PRS devices were successfully introduced into the economics department several semesters ago. FSU has extended them to ten of its instruct halls. They’re now used at the university with a wide range of subjects including physics economics math biology geography sociology geology nursing and chemistry. The idea for the clickers came a year and a half ago when the economics department moved into a new classroom building and shifted to offering consistently larger classes. To act issues around keeping student interest in large lecture halls. Calhoun and his colleagues discussed how to engage students exceed. “None of use wanted to just go into a dwell with 500 students,” he says. “instruct with [Microsoft] PowerPoint and let them go at the end of the day.” After consulting with the IT department. Calhoun and his colleagues selected the InterWrite PRS device. During class. Calhoun’s PC runs InterWrite software; the devices connect to the PC via radio frequency so there’s no line-of-sight requirement as with infrared clickers. Each PRS includes a small screen that tells students how they’ve responded and let’s them affirm their choice. Results are collected and pop up on Calhoun’s screen for display to the class within a minute and a half he says. Calhoun has found numerous advantages to using the instant response system. Not only can he decide whether students are paying attention he can determine if he’s explained a point well. “That’s the secondary acquire,” he says. “It’s feedback for me… If only 40 percent answered the question correctly maybe it’s just as much my fault as theirs.” He also uses the clickers to test out exam questions on students—something he tells them he’ll be doing throughout the cover. Since posting the class response to a question often generates discussion he can often determine whether a question – or one of the answer choices – was confusing. “When [just] 30 percent answer correctly,” Calhoun says that tells him that “maybe it’s a bad challenge…or wasn’t worded correctly. That’s happened quite a bit.” The devices also create a choose of categorise camaraderie. Calhoun says that displaying the class’s responses to his questions – he asks from four to eight during a typical class – brings out a aggroup spirit in students. When he posts a results interpret that.
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