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Having attended the recent Handheld Learning conference in London it was striking how educators are looking towards technologies that can promote learning outcomes. A significant amount of recent research supports the premise that classroom response systems play an important part in increasing pupil engagement, interest and lead to improving performance in relation to learning objectives.  The study by Radosevich and Saloman, titled “Using Student Response Systems to Increase Motivation, Learning, and Knowledge Retention” is particularly interesting. (Click here to access article).

It is encouraging that teachers are looking into this issue on their own intitiative and running studies which are aimed at establishing the pragmatic value of classroom response technology. A school in Texas recently did research which confirmed the value of the technology in relation the standardized State assessments (TAKS). According to Edah Stock, the 8th grade teacher who did the study, the randomly selected test group (using Qwizdom remotes) acheived an average of 80% against the mean of the control group which was 60%. Ms Stock went on to say that the value of the Qwizdom system was in the fact that it allowed her to see how well students in the test group were grasping the content and adjust her teaching accordingly. The full article is available here.