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introduction In some organizations, all
first-level headings begin a new
On September 6, 2011, Dr. Jill Bremerton, Vice President for Student Affairs at page.
Central Montana State University (CMSU), invited the CMSU Student Affairs A brief statement of the context
Advisory Committee (SAAC) to participate in a feasibility study about the use of for the report.
student response systems, commonly called clickers, at CMSU.
Currently, Academic Technologies, which oversees all the computing functions The word currently is used to
in CMSU classrooms, has three sets of 100 clickers from Turning Technologies introduce the background of the
and two sets of 100 clickers from eInstruction. These clickers are available for study: the current situation is
instructors to check out for occasional use but may not be reserved for every meeting inadequate because the univer-
of an instructor’s course. On the basis of an increasing consensus in the scholarly sity is not taking advantage of
community that clickers improve the classroom learning environment and can improve a potentially useful educational
learning in large lecture courses, Dr. Bremerton has allocated resources for a large tool: clickers.
feasibility study of whether CMSU should select a particular clicker system for use by
CMSU instructors and establish a policy to provide technical support for clicker use
and a method for students to acquire clickers through the university. The research that
Dr. Bremerton invited SAAC to perform will be part of this large feasibility study.
Specifically, Dr. Bremerton asked the committee to perform research that would
answer the following four questions:
1. Would instructors approve a university policy that selects and provides technical The writers quote from the
support for a clicker system that they could use in large lecture courses? memo Dr. Bremerton had
written to them. Often in techni-
2. Would students approve a requirement that they purchase clickers as part of a cal communication, you will
university policy on clickers? quote your reader’s words to
3. Would the physical characteristics of any of the large lecture halls affect the remind him or her of the context
decision whether to adopt clickers or restrict the university to a particular and to show that you are carry-
technology or brand of clicker? ing out your tasks professionally.
4. Would the computer platforms and operating systems used in the instructor
stations in the large lecture halls affect the decision whether to adopt clickers or
restrict the university to a particular technology or brand of clicker?
Dr. Bremerton explained that an understanding of faculty and student attitudes toward The writers show that they
the adoption of a formal policy on clickers was fundamentally important because if understand the relationship
faculty or students expressed no interest in their use or held serious reservations about between their work and the
their use, the university would need to consider whether and how to proceed with larger feasibility study of which
the feasibility study. Dr. Bremerton further explained that, for the university to study it is a part.
adopting a clicker policy, the administration would need to understand whether the
physical characteristics of the lecture halls and the existing computer environment in
the lecture halls would influence the technical choices that needed to be made.

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