Didactic issues on using Audience Response Systems in education

PETER de JONG, ROEL SIJSTERMANS, NYNKE BOS, JAN BOLK and MARIO MAAS

Leiden University Medical Center, the NetherlandsAcademic Medical Center – University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Supported by the International Association of Medical Science Educators

Session layout

• Introduction on principles of ARS • Use of ARS in Education• Implementing ARS in your institution• Questions and closure

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• Ervaring? + iemand laten toelichten

Introduction on principles of ARS

• Audience Response Systems• Hands up• Clickers• Mobile devices

• Audience response systems (ARS) have been designed to electronically poll large groups of students using individual hand-held transmitters and to almost immediately report results in graphic form which can be projected on-screen allowing the teacher to provide instant feedback(Caldwell, 2007). Thanks to the advent

Audience Response Systems

Student ResponseCard

Real Time Classroom

Assessment

PowerPoint Presentation

Purpose of use

• Determine knowledge level of students• Increase student attentiveness and retention• Knowledge transformation• Determine knowledge gaps• Tailored sized lectures• Clinical reasoning• Opinion polling• (formative) testing, tracking participation and absence

Watch out for overkill and use it well!

Introduction on principles of ARS

• Effects:• Review student comprehension• Stimulate discussion• Students are less shy to react: overcome fear• Anonymous for others in class• 2-way interaction• Competition• Less hard to admit a wrong answer and to discuss it

Introduction on principles of ARS

• Possibilities:• Pre-test• Post-test• Branch the presentation• Opinion of the group

• Analysis of the data (by the presenter afterwards)

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• Gesnapt?

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Aknowledgements

• More Info:• Peter de Jong, p.g.m.de_jong@lumc.nl• Roel Sijstermans, r.sijstermans@amc.uva.nl• Nynke Bos, n.r.bos@amc.uva.nl

• Future workshops:• NVMO, Nov 13+14 2008, Egmond aan Zee (NL)• IAMSE, June 29-July 3 2009, Leiden (NL)