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Classroom Response System
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AccelScan scanner
(optional)
projector (optional)
What Is the 2Know! Classroom Response
System? software
student handheld remote units
toolbar
wireless receiver
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Application Ideas
• Summative assessment applications
• Formative assessment applications
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Application Idea 1
Use 2Know! to track student responses to specifically-crafted questions posed at key points during lessons.
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Range-Finding Questions
• Assess prior knowledge• How many fractions can you
find between 1/6 and 1/7?A.There are none.B.There are many.C. 1
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Hinge-Point Questions
• Check understanding• Inform instruction• Decide where the lesson
will go– Will we move on?– Will we work
independently?– Will we
review/reteach?
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What To Do WithHinge-Point Data
% correct What to do
Below 50% Reteach
50-80% Peer instruction
Above 80% Move on
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Sampling Student Responses
Traditionally• 3 review
questions posed
• 1 student responds to each
• Total of 3 responses
With 2Know!• 3 review
questions posed
• Each student (in a class of 30) responds
• Total of 90 responses
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Application Idea 2
Using as formative with media such as PowerPoint, Video, and
the Internet.
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Application Idea 3
Use the New Score Key feature to automate the
scoring of existing summative assessments.
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Application Idea 4
Use 2Know! to automate the scoring of new assessments.
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Application Idea 5
Use 2Know! to make homework as efficient and
effective as possible.
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Application Idea 6
Use 2Know! for “start-up” activities such as . . .
• Questions on an assigned reading from the night before
• Review questions from the previous day’s lesson
• Sampling from homework problems
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Application Idea 7
Use 2Know! for scoring Accelerated Math
assignments.
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Classroom Response System
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Black and Wiliam(1998)
• “students taught by teachers who integrated assessment with instruction could achieve in six or seven months what would otherwise take a year.”
• “. . . more importantly, these improvements appear to be consistent across countries. . ., across ages and across subjects.”
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ReferencesBlack, Paul & Wiliam, Dylan (1998).
Inside the Black Box. Phi Delta Kappan. October, pp. 139–144.
Duncan, Douglas (2005). Clickers in the Classroom: How to Enhance Science Teaching Using Classroom Response Systems. New York: Pearson Education.
Leahy, S., Lyon, C., Thompson, M., and Wiliam, D. (2005). Classroom Assessment: Minute by Minute, Day by Day. Educational Leadership, Vol. 63, No. 3.