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When clickers made their way into higher education in the 1990s, the handheld devices were hailed by professors for their ability to reach everyone in large lecture halls, allowing hundreds of ...

Re “More Professors Give Out Hand-Held Devices to Monitor Students and Engage Them” (“The Choice,” news article, Nov. 16): I read your article with dismay. The devices mentioned in the article that ...

Students don’t always learn what it is that we intend to teach them. In several science departments, faculty are addressing this gap by collaboratively deciding on just what it is that they want ...

Poster presentation: View a poster (PDF) describing this project from the 2012 Symposium on Teaching and Learning. Description: This project studies the combined effect of a lecture method and ...

PHILADELPHIA - Freshman Sarah Speicher stared down at her syllabus in the bookstore at Temple University, considering her next purchase. "Clicker?" she asked out loud. "What's a clicker?" A clicker, ...

CRIM 101 – Introduction to Criminology CRIM 104 – Sociological Explanations of Criminal and Deviant Behavior CRIM 131 – Introduction to the Criminal Justice System – A Total Systems Approach CRIM 300 ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Professor Ross Cheit put it to the students in his “Ethics and Public Policy” class at Brown University: Are you morally obliged to report cheating if you know about it? The room ...

1. Deep Learning. Derek Bruff, who wrote a book on teaching with clickers, observed that clickers could promote deep learning. It could also broaden learning from instructor-led discussion to peer ...