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Instructor Resources
Background
PRS is a Personal Response System designed to allow anonymous student participation during lectures. PRS is used most commonly in the following way:
- The teacher comes up with a question to ask the class and creates the question using PRS.
- At the appropriate time during class, the teacher brings PRS up on a screen and asks students to answer the question.
- Students respond to the question using their PRS transmitters (commonly called “clickers”). The transmitters are small keypads that send their answers to a PRS receiver connected to the teacher’s computer.
- Once students have had a chance to answer, polling stops and a graph (sometimes called a histogram) of the student responses can be viewed and discussed. The student responses are automatically saved to the teacher’s computer for later use.
- Once the class ends, teachers may grade this data to award credit for both participation and correct answers.
As you can probably imagine, this can have a wide variety of benefits. Some of the benefits are discussed on the pedagogical benefits page |
