Hand-held electronic devices called clickers are helping college students learn physics, according to a series of research studies. Students who used the devices to answer multiple-choice questions ...

Clickers have become increasingly popular as a way for professors to interact with students and to measure -- during a lecture -- whether information and ideas are being conveyed. As more professors ...

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The students in Michael Dubson’s physics class at the University of Colorado at Boulder fell silent as a multiple-choice question flashed on a screen, sending them scrambling for small white devices ...

Plenty of peer-reviewed research shows that classroom “clickers” improve student learning when it comes to delivering facts. But a new study found that the devices can actually work against deeper ...

For a long time, college professors had no idea whether their lectures were sinking in --until exam time, when it became clear that students either got the lesson… or didn’t. But in the last decade, ...

Tristan Maheux looks excited when he bounds into class after recess and sees what is on his desk. "Oh good, a quiz," the nine-year-old says. He picks up a wireless hand-held device known as a clicker, ...

A technological survey tool is winning over new users at P.E.I.'s post-secondary schools. The clickers, by Turning Technologies Canada, have been used for years in some of UPEI's largest classes: ...

BOULDER, Colo. | The students in Michael Dubson's physics class at the University of Colorado fell silent as a multiple choice question flashed on a screen, sending them scrambling for small white ...

Vanessa Bravo is an Instructional Designer at American Sentinel University and teaches online courses at the University of Connecticut, Colorado Christian University, and Colorado Community College.