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Click-IIT: Using Clickers to Identify Interventions through Technology

Lucas County Educational Service

Center

Lucas County Educational Service

Center

Formative Assessments + Clickers

Significantly improves student performance (Petersohn, 2008)

Help identify struggling learners (Griff & Matter, 2008)

Bridge high school to college (Hedges & Mania-Farnell, 2002)

Increase confidence (Ribbens, 2008)

Types of Assessments

Time? Quick—beginning/end of class, with clickers for

speedy results (high tech), can be used for grades Extensive—to promote discussion, with or without

clickers (high or low tech), to determine what students already know

Technology? High Tech—with clickers (expensive), quick or

extensive Low Tech—without clickers (less expensive) and

with other materials, can be quick (sometimes), can be extensive

Assessments with Clickers

2-15+ questions

Quick and extensive

Teacher created and OAT/OGT imported questions

Before, during, and after lessons

Graded and not graded

Click-IIT Student Survey To determine students’ preferences for instructional

delivery and feedback

Feedback timeframe? 2% 3+ days 45% 1-2 days 38% Same class period 15% Immediately (or within a few minutes)

Feedback preference? 0% 3+ days 20% 1-2 days 42% Same class period 38% Immediately (or within a few minutes)

Instant feedback improve learning? 0% Not at all 11% Very little 35% Some 54% Very much

Click-IIT Student Survey Participation frequency?

8% Never 52% Sometimes 27% Often 14% Frequently

Anonymous participation = increase in participation? 3% Strongly disagree 15% Disagree 39% Agree 42% Strongly Agree

Math & Science Assessment Books

Delivery Strategies: FACTs

Sticky Bars

Human Scatterplots

Card Sorts

Agreement Circles

Commit and Toss

Click-IIT: Using Clickers to Identify Interventions through Technology

13 participating teachers representing four local districts

Two teachers received BP grants

One dept. team (3 Teachers) received funding to purchase a system

Checkout system in districts

Additional professional development sessions offered

Future DisseminationPresented a session at the 2009 Making

Ohio Schools Work Conference in Columbus in June.

Applied to present at the NWO Symposium on Science, Math, and Technology Teaching.

Applied to present at the 2010 eTech Ohio Conference focusing on P-20 conversations.