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Students would purchase keypads
in the bookstore for $16 to $25 and
register keypads at CPSOnline and pay
another $15 per semester registration
fee, which would be reduced to $6 if
the student purchased a new textbook
from McGraw Hill.
Paul Moorman, eLearning Consultant
for McGraw-Hill, said that if students
were taking more than one class that
required a keypad, there would be only
one activation fee provided each class
used the same keypad for each class.
Dr. Carol Keller, history depart-
ment, used the clickers for • three
semesters in 1994 and 1995 and said
students liked the clickers, especially
the students whose first language was
not English because when they got
something wrong and she showed a
graph of how many of the other stu-
dents missed the same question, they
didn’t feel so bad.
The clickers have enormous poten-
tial, but they are usually for classes of
300 or more students.
The reason that she quit using the
clickers, was that at the time there
were a lot of viruses going around that
changed her computer and IT never got
the software to work properly and this
discouraged the students.
. Keller said she was going to use
the clickers next semester with her
sophomore class of world history and if
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The new tool for the sociology
department and possibly a new way of
learning for students is the classroom
performance system, or simply clickers,
as everyone likes to call them.
It will allow teachers and students
to communicate more effectively like
voting on different statements made
by the professor with a yes or no, or a
true or false answer registered on the
professor’s laptop.
This system not only keeps track
of all questions asked, but also it keeps
up with who made what responses,
allowing the professor to send grades
to a grade book and upload results to
the Internet.
This could not only alert the teach-
ers to the student’s understanding of
the class material being covered, but
also it could be. used in conferences
with students in determining what they
need to study.
A clicker looks like a television
remote control and allows students to
respond immediately to statements or
questions made by the professor for
instant class surveys.-
These statements will have answers
labeled as either a, b, c or d, all of the
above or none of the above. Students
will purchase one of these when buy-
ing their books for the classes that will
everything worked out, she would try it
with the rest of her classes.
Instructor Tina Yarbrough, who has
used the clickers for the past three
semesters, said the students felt more
involved in the class because they have
some input through the questions that
were given and the results shown to
the class and the different answers
discussed.
. Yarbrough said she liked the capa-
bilities of data slicing because she
could ask several polling questions,
feeding the answers into the computer
and then be able to see the relation-
ship in relation to race, gender, age,
nationality, etc.
Using the clickers eliminates the
need to take roll or to use Scantrons
for tests. The new system will even
allow students to go online and get
. their grade minutes after taking the
test.
Questions and polls can be writ-
ten out in PowerPoint or there are
questions furnished by the textbook
manufacturer.
Criminal justice sophomore Aurora
Gomez said she thought the clickers
were simple and easy, very convenient
and she liked being anonymous.
Liberal arts sophomore Mohammed
Rhman said he thought they were
pretty good and could not say anything
negative about them’.
Instructor Tina Yarbrough shows the results of a polling question in a sociology class in Room 206
of Chance Wednesday.
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