Recommended reading

• Effective Use of the Audience Response System: A Primer
  http://library.cpmc.columbia.edu/cere/web/facultyDev/ARS_handout_2004_tipsheet.pdf This tipsheet, created by Columbia University's Center for Education Research and Evaluation, provides great tips for implementing clickers in higher education courses. It includes: defining a clear purpose, designing effective questions, and designing effective clickers slides as well as tips for best practices.
  
  
• 7 Things You Should Know About Clickers
  http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7002.pdf
  This PDF pamphlet from EduCause briefly covers topics such as "Who uses clickers?", "What makes it unique?", and "Where is it going?"
  
  
• Twelve tips for using a computerised interactive audience response system
  http://cidd.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/workshops/documentation/twelvetips.pdf
  This paper describes the use of a student response system to transform large group teaching sessions into active learning experiences.
  
  
• Learning Outcomes Related to the Use of Personal Response Systems in Large Science Courses
  http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/review/west-polling-technology
  This brief article confirms studies that demonstrate that student participation is key to positive learning outcomes.
  
  
• Transforming Student Learning with Classroom Communication Systems
  http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERB0403.pdf
  In this PDF document Ian Beatty from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Scientific Reasoning Research Institute and Physics Education Research Group (UMPERG) shares lessons learned through a decade of using clickers in the classroom. He discusses the benefits that clickers offer to higher education.
  
  
• Waking the Dead: Using interactive technology to engage passive listeners in the classroom
  http://www.mhhe.com/cps/docs/CPSWP_WakindDead082003.pdf
  This paper focuses on students perceptions of student response systems. The analysis reveals that student participation approaches 100% in class sessions where PRS are used due, in part, to anonymity, ease of use, and the ability to see how many others answered in the same way.
  
  
• Audience Response Systems in Higher Education: Applications and Cases
  Author: David A. Banks, ISBN: 1591409470
  Available at Alden Library
  This book discusses the importance of creating Audience Response Systems (ARS) to facilitate greater interaction with participants engaged in a variety of group activities, particularly education.