Hand-held electronic devices called clickers are helping college students learn physics, according to a series of research studies. Students who used the devices to answer multiple-choice questions ...

Clickers have become increasingly popular as a way for professors to interact with students and to measure -- during a lecture -- whether information and ideas are being conveyed. As more professors ...

The students in Michael Dubson’s physics class at the University of Colorado at Boulder fell silent as a multiple-choice question flashed on a screen, sending them scrambling for small white devices ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Classroom ...

For a long time, college professors had no idea whether their lectures were sinking in --until exam time, when it became clear that students either got the lesson… or didn’t. But in the last decade, ...

Plenty of peer-reviewed research shows that classroom “clickers” improve student learning when it comes to delivering facts. But a new study found that the devices can actually work against deeper ...

Angel Hoekstra is a graduate student in sociology at CU studying clickers. Her dissertation, “Use of Clickers in Higher Education: A Socio-Cultural Analysis,” analyzed students’ opinions on clicker ...

BOULDER, Colo. | The students in Michael Dubson's physics class at the University of Colorado fell silent as a multiple choice question flashed on a screen, sending them scrambling for small white ...

Tristan Maheux looks excited when he bounds into class after recess and sees what is on his desk. "Oh good, a quiz," the nine-year-old says. He picks up a wireless hand-held device known as a clicker, ...

Professor Ross Cheit put it to the students in his "Ethics and Public Policy" class at Brown University: Are you morally obliged to report cheating if you know about it? The room began to hum, but no ...