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Classroom Response System

How to promote student engagement?AMA Day, Saturday 5th April

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Starter QuizTeachers often use a few quick

questions at the start of a class to recap the previous class and to provide feedback on student progress

PROBLEMS: Only some of the students do the quiz, the rest are trying to look insignificant and are hoping that you won’t ask them what the answer is.

So starter quizzes can be a good idea but do they give you the feedback you want?

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Classroom Response Systems (CRS)Classroom response systems can

promote co-operative learning with “students becoming active participants in the learning process”. ( Beatty, 2006)

CRS are an integral part of “Question Driven Instruction”

Well-designed questions can promote peer and class discussion.

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Question DesignQuestions should have THREE goals1. a CONTENT goal ( current topic)2. a PROCESS goal ( current skill)3. a METACOGNITIVE goal ( big

picture)

Well designed questions are merely a tool. How a teacher uses them to interact with students in the classroom is more important.

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Do you have a smart phone?Do your students have smart phones?

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Socrative.com – It’s FREE!

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Student Log in ( m.socrative.com)

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Teacher Log in: Students enter your room number 280125

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QuizzesMultiple Choice questionsTrue/False questionsOpen-ended questionsQuizzes can be saved and sharedEasy to set upIndicate the correct answerQuiz is automatically markedSocrative works on a variety of

devices

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ReportsResults can be exported or

emailed to you as an EXCEL fileCan display results LIVE as

students complete the quiz if you wish

Multiple choice questions can be immediately displayed in a chart.