Sunday, October 05, 2008
Student-response Systems Offer Immediate Feedback
svconline: "Student-response systems have gained popularity in recent years especially with the trend of increased student-teacher interaction and the need to establish measureable goals under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001."
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I have a lot to say about "student response programs". Why? "Because I just finished my alchahal education test online which took a good 3 hours of my life away and did I gain anything from it? I learned a few interesting facts but honeslty as much as I hate taking these student made program assessment tests, I would rather just take a class for a mini, or something of the sort? It would be more binificial if you ask me. Obviously a lot of people cheat, dont actually go through the information or just dont do it, but by taking a course you can actually learn the information. In another light, I could understand why this might be a good thing, to gain information from your friends and their experiences or simply just random strangers. Its a bitter-sweet symphany with these types of things.
they're talking more along the lines of the useless H-ITT system CMU has in some of the larger lecture halls.
basically, if a class wants to use this technology, each student is forced to buy a proprietary IR transmitter (not cheap). then the professors need to learn how to use the proprietary software on the (often) non-working podium computers in these lecture halls. most professors have a hard enough time using powerpoint, or as i've been experiencing recently, the computer software the professor has been writing his/herself!
the NCLB act is, imho, a waste of resources. for decades, education hasn't been an issue and we've still survived (so far). now, i think the low test scores are attributed to lack of caring of parents and an overall media-influenced society. mass media should be unbiased, but as we all know, it's not. it's making people stupider, and I, for one, am sick of it
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