Clicker Clicks It

Abstract

He is an active member of ASEE, SME, HTEC and enjoys teaching and researching in the field of advanced materials, micro manufacturing, and medical manufacturing.

Student Response System Best Practices for Engineering as Implemented in Plickers

“…As early as 1966, Stanford University introduced an SRS to the classroom, followed by a hardwired system at Christopher Newport University in 1985. SRSs began to gain greater presence in academia with the introduction of the wireless clicker in 1999 [5]. Throughout the early 2000s, many universities and engineering programs experimented and published work on clicker-based systems and established many SRS norms and best practices [2], [3], [6]- [10].…”

“…SRSs can provide the instructor with meaningful feedback. In this way every student, even shy or passive students, can respond to questions [3], [5], [8], [9], [15], [27], [29]. Furthermore, unlike direct questions, instructor-student dialogue, and even student response cards, SRSs provide a level of anonymity to the students.…”

“…With a little thoughtfulness, instructors can also use an SRS to facilitate classroom discussion. A number of pedagogical approaches rely on student-student interaction and collaboration; SRSs provide an obvious context for such interaction [3], [5], [7], [17], [31]. Such collaboration increases active learning and student satisfaction in classroom activities [16], [26], [30].…”

“…SRSs also set the stage for increased content mastery [5]. By sharing histograms of responses, students can learn from their own mistakes and the mistakes of others [7], [8], [23], [31].…”

Innovative Applications of Classroom Response Devices in Manufacturing Education

“…Although the satisfaction scores for students' learning outcomes were very high, the issue of providing timely feedback on their assigned homework was a challenge. Responding to positive results experienced by other instructors in manufacturing education 1 , the authors of this paper began using Classroom Response Devices (Clickers) as a tool to assess students' learning as an alternative to homework;…”