Presentations

    Technology is not a pedagogy: Peer Instruction with and without clickers, at 2009 AAPT Winter Meeting (Chicago, IL), Monday, February 16, 2009:
    Peer Instruction is an instructional strategy for engaging students during class using a structured questioning process. Results from a wide variety of institutions indicate that Peer Instruction increases student mastery of conceptual reasoning and quantitative problem solving and decreases attrition rates. The technique is most frequently implemented with clickers, even though flashcards or raised hands can also be used. We recently studied the effect of clickers on the implementation of Peer Instruction and found that the benefits result more from the pedagogy than from the clicker... Read more about Technology is not a pedagogy: Peer Instruction with and without clickers
    Peer Instruction Practical Details, at Physics and Astronomy New Faculty Workshop (Greenbelt, MD), Thursday, November 17, 2011:
    The basic goals of Peer Instruction are to encourage and make use of student interaction during lectures, while focusing students' attention on underlying concepts and techniques. The method has been assessed in many studies using standardized, diagnostic tests and shown to be considerably more effective than the conventional lecture approach to teaching. Peer Instruction is now used in a wide range of science and math courses at the college and secondary level. In this 2-3 hour long workshop, participants will learn about Peer Instruction, serve as the "class" in which Peer Instruction is... Read more about Peer Instruction Practical Details