BeattyWeb

Resources to help instructors use a classroom response system (CRS, “clickers”) in their teaching…

writings by my colleagues and I

A dense, thorough, scholarly presentation and defense of the “Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment” (TEFA) pedagogy my colleagues and I have developed for teaching with clickers:

• Beatty, I. D. & Gerace, W. J. (2009). Technology-enhanced formative assessment: A research-based pedagogy for teaching science with classroom response technology. Journal of Science Education & Technology, 18(2) 146.

An older paper on creating effective questions for CRS teaching, in the domain of physics:

• Beatty, I. D., Leonard, W. J., Gerace, W. J., & Dufresne, R. J. (2006). Designing effective questions for classroom response system teaching. American Journal of Physics 74(1) 31-39.

A set of “HowTo” notes we wrote to support teachers learning to use clickers:

• TEFANote 1: What is TEFA?
• TEFANote 2: Ways of Using TEFA
• TEFANote 3: TEFA Question Content
• TEFANote 4: Four-Tiered Question Goals
• TEFANote 5: Question Design Patterns
• Example Questions for TEFANote 5

A not-final, unpublished draft of a paper about the role of whole-class discussion within TEFA, of which the second half is a list of suggestions, tips, and provocative challenges (written during one long all-nighter before a professional development meeting, so caveat emptor):

• Beatty (2007), Whole Class Discussion in TEFA, unpublished

useful links to other great sites

• Derek Bruff’s CRS page — the man knows what he’s talking about; listen to him!
• Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (UBC) clicker resources page — has links to several compilations of clicker questions