This is a session of Topic 4: Statistics education at the post-secondary level

Use of student response systems in teaching statistics at the university level

Organizer

• Chris Wild (New Zealand) : Session chair

Abstract

Personal Response Systems (clickers) are becoming ubiquitous on university campuses, particularly in large, lecture-based courses. Clickers are hand-held transmitters that allow students to respond to questions in class, with their responses recorded on the instructor’s computer. These systems allow instructors to move away from didactic lecture formats towards more active learning strategies that encourage student participation and are consistent with research on active learning. The papers in this session will describe a variety of implementations of clickers in statistics courses at the university level and will provide data on the effectiveness of the use of clickers in statistics education.

Papers