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534 Writing Recommendation Reports

abstract

The title of the report is often “establishing baseline Requirements for adopting clickers
enclosed in quotation marks at cMSU: a Recommendation Report”
because the abstract might
be placed outside the report, Prepared by: Jeremy Elkins, Co-chair
in which case the report is a Eloise Carruthers, Co-chair
separate document. Student Affairs Advisory Committee
Central Montana State University
Abstracts are often formatted as On September 6, 2011, Dr. Jill Bremerton, Vice President for Student Affairs at
a single paragraph. Central Montana State University (CMSU), formally asked the CMSU Student
Affairs Advisory Committee (SAAC) to participate in a feasibility study about the
The background and purpose of use of student response systems, commonly called clickers, at CMSU by assessing
the report. instructor and student attitudes toward clickers and determining whether the cur-
rent infrastructure of the large lecture halls on campus would affect whether and
how the university should pursue its feasibility study. To perform this research,
The methods. SAAC devised interview questions and questionnaires to distribute to appropriate
CMSU stakeholders. We found that faculty — both those experienced with click-
The major findings. ers and those without experience — are very receptive to a careful feasibility study.
Faculty’s most important concern is that, if CMSU adopts a formal policy of clicker
use, the university choose a good clicker system and provide effective technical
support. More than half of the students expressed a willingness to pay up to $40 for
a clicker, with 23 percent willing to pay only $20 and 19 percent willing to pay up
to $60. The lecture halls are not equipped to handle infrared-based clicker systems.
The major recommendations. We recommend that CMSU consider only radiofrequency-based systems. In
addition, because our large lecture halls use both PCs and Macs, we should con-
sider only those vendors that offer systems that are cross-platform and (for PCs)
The writers provide some tech- that are compatible back to the Windows XP operating system.
nical information about student
attitudes, about the system they Keywords: clickers, student response systems, classroom response systems, student
are recommending, and about attitudes, faculty attitudes
the infrastructure of the large
lecture halls.
A keywords list ensures that
if the report is searched elec-
tronically, it will register “hits” for
each of the terms listed.

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