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The Most Extraordinary Document
Questioning Strategies for
Audience Response Systems:
How to Use Questions to Maximize
Learning, Engagement, and Satisfaction
by Dr. Will Thalheimer
Introduction
The buzz in the learning industry is focused on
e-learning, m-learning, wikis, and blogs; but one of the most
powerful learning technologies is being overlooked, probably because
it's an in-the-classroom technology—audience response systems. In
this research-to-practice white paper I offer a blueprint for how to
use audience response systems to maximize higher-order learning in
the classroom and beyond.
What One
Reader Wrote to Me:
Dr. Thalheimer,
Just wanted to drop you a little note this morning to express my
gratitude for your paper "Questioning Strategies for Audience
Response Systems: How to Use Questions to Maximize Learning,
Engagement, and Satisfaction."
A friend recommended that I read it to prepare for a Higher Order
Questioning staff development class that she and I are teaching
together (in conjunction with some CPS [audience response] training
we're offering). To tell you the truth, I really wasn't looking
forward to reading it because I expected it to be dry and full of
boring I'm-trying-to-sound-snobbily-intellectual writing, but I
LOVED it. :)
I enjoyed your approachable style and dry sense of humor so much I
read all the way through (including the endnotes!) and had many a
good laugh along the way. In addition to being a blast to read, the
paper challenged and inspired me to find new ways to push my
questioning skills to a higher level for the next school year.
Thanks again, for the inspiration and for the great read. I'll be
checking out your website later today and hope to find that equally
enjoyable.
Sincerely,
Liz Walhof
Spanish Teacher
Colorado
From the
Paper's Introduction
"Audience response systems have enormous potential
for transforming lectures from dry recitals into rich jam sessions
of deeply resonant learning. The technology is widely available, but
the key to success is not in the technology; it’s in the
instruction. To maximize meaningful learning, instructors must
become adept in using questioning and discussion techniques.
Unfortunately, some of us may come to believe that we can simply
sprinkle our lectures with a few multiple-choice questions. This
approach is emphatically inadequate, and is simply not worthy of our
profession.
This report provides a near-exhaustive list of questioning
strategies, and a comprehensive guide on using questions to
facilitate classroom learning. No other resource exists that is
research-based and comprehensive, while also being practical and
useful. It has been designed specifically to provide practical
guidance for trainers, teachers, and professors so that their
learners—whether they are eight, forty-eight, or eighty years
old—can experience deep and meaningful learning."
Special thanks to
eInstruction for agreeing to license the paper for distribution to
their clients. Such underwriting helps move the audience-response field
forward and demonstrates an enlightened commitment to effective learning
in classrooms of all types throughout the world. Other underwriting
opportunities are available for research on audience-response learning.
Contact Dr. Thalheimer with inquiries.
Additional Information
Number of Pages: 124
Number of Research Citations: 54
Publication Date: March 2007
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