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458 Writing Proposals

Memo to Dr. Jill Bremerton October 6, 2011 Page 2
If this proposal were authorized, we would begin our research immediately, submitting to
Dr. Bremerton a progress report on November 7, 2011, and a recommendation report on
December 14, 2011. The recommendation report would include the details of our research
and recommendation regarding whether and how to proceed with the feasibility study.
Introduction
a brief statement of the context On September 6, 2011, Dr. Jill Bremerton, Vice President for Student Affairs at Central
for the proposal. Montana State University (CMSU), invited the CMSU Student Affairs Advisory
Committee (SAAC) to participate in a feasibility study about the use of student response
systems, commonly called clickers, at CMSU.
an explanation of the Currently, Academic Technologies, which oversees all the computing functions in CMSU
problem: the current situation classrooms, has three sets of 100 clickers from Turning Technologies and two sets of 100
is inadequate because the clickers from eInstruction. These clickers are available for instructors to check out for
university’s administrators occasional use but may not be reserved for every meeting of an instructor’s course. On
believe that clickers might be the basis of an increasing consensus in the scholarly community that clickers improve the
classroom learning environment and can improve learning in large lecture courses, Dr.
a useful educational tool for Bremerton has allocated resources for a large feasibility study of whether CMSU should
CMsu students. However, a select a particular clicker system for use by CMSU instructors and establish a policy to
number of important questions provide technical support for clicker use and a method for students to acquire clickers
need to be answered before the through the university. The research that Dr. Bremerton invited SAAC to perform will be
administration decides to devote part of this large feasibility study.
more resources to clickers.
Specifically, Dr. Bremerton asked the committee to perform research that would answer
the following four questions:
The writers quote from a memo 1. Would instructors approve of a university policy that selects and provides technical
dr. Bremerton had written support for a clicker system that they could use in large lecture courses?
to them. Often in technical 2. Would students approve of a requirement that they purchase clickers as part of a
communication, you will quote university policy on clickers?
your reader’s words to remind 3. Would the physical characteristics of any of the large lecture halls affect the decision
whether to adopt clickers or restrict the university to a particular technology or brand
him or her of the context and to of clicker?
show that you are carrying out 4. Would the computer platforms and operating systems used in the instructor stations
your tasks professionally. in the large lecture halls affect the decision whether to adopt clickers or restrict the
university to a particular technology or brand of clicker?
The writers show that they Dr. Bremerton explained that an understanding of faculty and student attitudes toward the
understand the relationship adoption of a formal policy on clickers is fundamentally important because if faculty or
between their work and the students express no interest in their use or have serious reservations about their use, the
larger feasibility study of which university would need to consider whether and how to proceed with the feasibility study.
it is a part. Dr. Bremerton further explained that, for the university to study adopting a clicker policy,
it would need to know whether the physical characteristics of the lecture halls and the
existing computer environment in the lecture halls might influence the technical choices
that need to be made.

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