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This page lists resources and links for attendees of the plenary talk and workshop I gave at Johnson & Wales University (Charlotte, NC) on November 6, 2009.

plenary

You can grab a PDF copy of my slide deck from the plenary, with some (limited) annotations, from my Dropbox public file storage.

Here’s a paper my colleague Bill Gerace and I published back in January. It’s got most of the content of my plenary, along with way more detail and background. (Please pardon the “scholarly” tone and organization; it was written for educational research types, not for teachers who would actually try to use the ideas in classrooms. Thus, it’s long on theory and very short on examples or practical tips.)

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.

The framework for characterizing classroom talk on the axes of “interactive vs. non-interactive” and “authoritative vs. dialogical” is from:

Mortimer, E. F., & Scott, P. H. (2003). Meaning Making in Secondary Science Classrooms. Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press.

Here’s a landmark summary of research on “how people learn” (as of 1999):

Bransford, John D, Ann L Brown, and Rodney R Cocking. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999.

One of the best-informed people on classroom response systems (“clickers”) and the different ways people are using them in various disciplines is Derek Bruff. His weblog is particularly worth following.

More than you ever wanted to know about “formative assessment”:

Black, Paul, and Dylan Wiliam. “Assessment and Classroom Learning.” Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice 5, no. 1 (1998): 7-74.

workshop

Here’s a file with examples of many different kinds of clicker question, meant to help teachers get unstuck when they find themselves in a rut.

And here’s another file with an explanation of the different “patterns” of question being showcased in that set of examples.

Enjoy!