This document discusses using audience response systems, also known as clickers, to engage students in the classroom. It presents different types of questions that can be used, including content, critical thinking, and process questions. Examples of multiple choice, free response, and Likert scale questions are provided that assess students' understanding of course content, like Marxism, or get their opinions on topics. The document encourages using audience response systems to facilitate class discussion and monitor students' comprehension.

1. Teaching with Audience
Response Systems
Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Teaching & Technology
Center for the Enhancement of Learning & Teaching
University of Kentucky

2. Audience
Response
Systems
aka
“Clickers”

8. Lecture
Tools

10. Types of Questions:
Content
•Recall
•Conceptual Understanding
•Application
•Procedural
•Prediction
Source: Bruff 2009, Teaching with Classroom Response Systems

11. Types of Questions:
Critical Thinking
•One Best Answer
•Peer Assessment
•Free-Response
Source: Bruff 2009, Teaching with Classroom Response Systems

12. Types of Questions:
Process
•Student Perspective
•Opinion
•Personal Experience
•Confidence Level
•Monitoring Progress Toward Learning Goals
•Classroom Experiments
Source: Bruff 2009, Teaching with Classroom Response Systems

13. Do you believe President Obama
is a Marxist?
1. YES
2. NO
3. I Don’t Know/WWSS?

14. According to Nancy Love, which
philosopher had the greatest
influence on Marx’s theory of
history?
1. Locke
2. Rousseau
3. Hegel
4.Burke

15. According to Marx, what determines
your class membership?
1. The geographic circumstances of
your birth.
2. What family you were born into.
3. Your attitude toward education and
religion.
4. Your relationship to the means of
production.

16. Marx appears to oppose religion
because:
1. He’s given it up for Lent.
2. He believes that religion prevents people from
acting to throw off the chains of their oppression.
3. He believes people should bear their oppression
and suffering without consolation.
4. Religion is a false notion compared to rational
analysis, and is thus an unacceptable way of
viewing the world.

17. According to Marx in “Estranged
Labor,” how does political economy
conceal the estrangement inherent in
the nature of labor?
1. By not considering the direct relationship between the
worker and production.
2. By not considering the direct relationship between the
worker and government.
3. By not considering the rich and complex relationship
between the worker and the capitalist.
4. By not considering the importance of unions and the
workers’ relationship to each other.

18. If how our society produces goods and services
transitioned from an information economy to a
biotech-genetic engineering economy, what
would you expect to be the result?
1.The social relations of production would change,
resulting in disruption of the current dialectic.
2. The Ideological Superstructure would likely change to
reflect the changed importance of the new material forces.
3. The Ideological Superstructure would likely change to
justify the new dominant class’ position in society.
4. All of the above
5.None of the above

19. How confident are you, on a scale of 1
(least) to 7 (most) that your previous
answer is correct?

20. Active
Learning
Tip
Use Audience
Response
Systems for
Class
Discussion &
Student
Engagement

21. Question Building
Time!