Clickers in the literature.

Want to check out the research on clickers? The below links will give you a good idea of the kind of research happening and how faculty are using clickers. We’ve also commissioned a complete literature review, organized by discipline.

Know of a great article or resource not yet included here?  Contact us at review@iclicker.com with more information.

Disclaimer: None of the below web resources were created by or for i>clicker or are affiliated with i>clicker in any way. We are not implying that any of the links below endorse i>clicker. They are included simply as resources for you.

Some of our Favorite Resources:

• Bruff, Derek. Classroom Response System Web Site with extensive and up-to-date bibliography 
• Caldwell, Jane. Clickers in the large classroom: Current research and best-practice tips. Life Sciences Education
• Crouch, Catherine H & Mazur, Eric, Peer Instruction: Ten Years of Experience and Results, American Journal of Physics (2001).
• Hoekstra, Angel. Vibrant student voices: exploring effects of the use of clickers in large college courses. Learning, Media and Technology (2008).
• Hoekstra, Angel and Steganie Mollborn. "A Meeting of Minds" Using Clickers for Critical Thinking and Discussion in Large Sociology Classes. Teaching Sociology (2010).
• Silverthorn, Dee (University of Texas-Austin) Classroom Performance System Web Page
• University of Colorado Science Education Initiative & University of British Columbia Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative. (2008). Clicker resource guide: An instructors guide to the effective use of personal response systems (clickers) in teaching.
• Zhu, Erping. Teaching with Clickers, Teaching with clickers. Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Occasional Papers, University of Michigan.  

i>clicker/University of Colorado-Boulder Study

Keller, C., Finkelstein, N., Perkins, K., Pollock, S., Turpen, C., Dubson, M. "Research-based Practices for Effective Clicker Use."  Proceedings for the Physics Education Research Conference, Greensboro, North Carolina, 2007.  i>clicker helped sponsor a research study at the University of Colorado-Boulder with a number of faculty in the Physics Department. The study and its findings can be found here.
CU Boulder Study PDF

i>clicker-Commissioned Literature Review
This broad survey of clicker research was assembled by Christopher Keller of the Physics Department at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
i>clicker Literature Review