Clickers in Action: Increasing Student Participation in General Chemistry [With CDROM]

by Margaret R. Asirvatham

Clickers, or Classroom Response Systems (CRS), have the proven ability to transform a traditional lecture course by enabling students to immediately assess their understanding and advance their problem-solving skills. Clickers give you the ability to evaluate students' learning in real time and allow you to immediately address misconceptions or to clarify concepts.

Clickers in Action is an instructor-oriented resource that provides all the information you need to implement clickers in your course. This guide will help you choose and manage a CRS system, develop effective questions, and integrate questions into your course.

Clickers in Action provides over 250 class-tested, lecture-ready questions. Most questions include histograms showing actual student response, and insights and suggestions for implementation. Question types include macroscopic observation, symbolic representation, and atomic/molecular views of processes.

Clickers in Action is supported by extensive research on the efficacy of clickers in the classroom and the author's considerable experience using CRS in her own lectures.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393933539
• ISBN13: 9780393933536
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.1"