Interactive Student Response System - The Magic Tool for Peer-to-peer Teaching

2018-06-14

Nowadays, it is an inevitable trend to equip a Student Response System as a teacher's teaching tool in the classrooms of major colleges and universities. This is especially the case when interactive whiteboards, short-throw projection screens, touch-screen TVs and various teaching equipement placed in the campus classroom, so that each student has a Response Clicker to achieve the true sense of the classroom interaction. However, how to use the Student Response System, let it play its true effectiveness?

The Interactive Student Response System uses radio frequency technology (Radio Frequency, RF for short). A whole set of Student Response System includes a number of student clickers, a computer-side receiver and an interactive response software, while the number of users can up to dozens to hundreds. The students use the clickers to feedback the questions raised by the teachers. The receiver transmits the feedback information to the computer, which is analyzed by the special interactive response software in the computer to generate the result charts such as Bar Chart or Pie Chart, all data is written into the computer database storage, easy to do in-depth analysis after class. Since each student's answer will be recorded, the teacher can also use it to establish a student's learning history, long-term tracking student learning situation for short-term and long-term academic analysis.

In teaching application, teachers quickly obtain feedback from all the students in the classroom by using this tool. Teachers can decide the follow-up teaching progress and content based on the statistical results of these feedback materials. Therefore, as a Formative Assessment, Student Clicker is a great tool. Peer teaching (Peer Instruction, PI for short), developed by Professor Eric Mazur from Harvard University's Physics Department, is a good match for the interactive Student Response System. PI's teaching decision is to use the instant percentage of statistics to decide whether to enter into in-depth teaching, short teaching or to discuss in groups (this part is peer teaching). The whole teaching process is very simple and very convenient to implement. Therefore, The Peer Instruction has obtained more and more attention and gradually promotion.

Application of SunVote Student Response System in the Classroom of School of Entrepreneurship and Management, Shanghai University of Science and Technology. In addition to various evaluative uses, the Student Clickers can also conduct group competition applications such as play-offs, competitions, etc. to enrich class activities and help teachers to improve engagement and entertain in class.

SunVote Limited, the original designer of this Classroom Clickers, has 20 years of experience in the field of interactive Student Response System, providing professional application for different alive response applications in education field solution.

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