Best Practices

Personal response systems can be used individually or in pairs to help promote active learning. As a result of student engagement with personal response systems, the physical classroom becomes a collaborative work space. Instructors ask questions via a PowerPoint presentation and students respond using a wireless response pad. The instructor can then display the results so that the class can see a visual representation of all student responses.

Specifically, personal response systems can be used to

• conduct polls in the classroom for the instructor to see how students respond to a question or concept,
• deliver in-class quizzes for feedback or students understanding the concepts being presented,
• obtain student feedback about the lecture being presented,
• help facilitate class discussions by allowing the instructor to see how students are feeling about a particular topic, and
• gather student demographic data.

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