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"A Meeting of Minds": Using Clickers for Critical Thinking and Discussion in Large Sociology Classes
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Direct linkMollborn, Stefanie; Hoekstra, Angel – Teaching Sociology, 2010
Because lecture-based teaching limits student learning, many instructors are interested in pedagogical strategies that support critical thinking, student participation, and group discussion in large classrooms. Audience response systems, or "clickers," are an emerging tool for addressing this problem, but predominant pedagogical models for clicker…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Large Group Instruction, Sociology, Audience Response
