Student responders allow teachers to collect formative and summative assessment data in real-time through multiple choice, true/false, and other response types. The data provided through student responders gives teachers insights into student understanding and areas needing reteaching. When paired with learning goals, effective feedback from student responders is the second most important school-level factor for student achievement after curriculum. Student responders enable just-in-time adjustments to instruction based on actual student responses rather than assumptions about comprehension.

1. Student Responders:
Respond – Report -
Review
Lorrie Carlson
Amy Caldwell
Mimi Huffman

2. How they work
 Set of Responders
 Receiver
plugs into USB port of computer
 Software installed on computer
2Know Toolbar
Acceltest

3. Why We Chose Renaissance
Responders
 Durability
 Outstanding Support/Training
 Multiple Input options
Multiple Choice
True/False
Numeric Answer
Short Answer
Math Facts in a Flash
Teacher led or Student led

4. Why Use Responders
 Leads to discussion with students
 Better class participation due to
anonymity
 Provides insight as to why students
answered as they did
 Teachers can instantly change
instruction to meet the needs
of the students

5. Why Use Responders
 Instant feedback on student
progress
 More organized assessments of
student progress
 Measurable individual and whole
class assessments for any type of
lesson with ease

6. Ways to Use Responders
 Informal Assessment – 2Know Toolbar
Before and while you teach a topic to see
what they know
 Use Powerpoint
 Pre-Test/quiz in digital or printed format
 Questions from textbook
 Oral questions
To Vote or Take survey
Pulse – Make sure students
understand and are on track

7. Ways to Use
Responders
Use with Internet sites
 BrainPop
 Study Island
 Many others - any interactive website that lends
itself to multiple choice, True/False, Short Answer,
etc.

8. Ways to Use Responders
 Math Facts in a Flash
 Students pick up responder, do Math Facts
 Show teacher results on responder
 Print out Results

10. Responders and Assessment
 Formative Assessment
Before teaching - to determine student
knowledge base. Determines what needs to
be taught.
While teaching – to gauge student
understanding. Allows teacher to review or
reteach if necessary.

11. Responders and Assessment
 Summative Assessments
Immediate Feedback allows you to analyze
responses to drive instruction

12. Responders and Assessment
The real power is
in the data you can
collect using
Acceltest

14. The power is in the data…
Take a look at the research around formative
assessment, though, and you'll start to wonder
whether you can afford not to invest in student
responders. When paired with developmentally
appropriate learning goals, effective feedback
ranks as the second most important school-
level factor influencing student achievement,
after a guaranteed and viable curriculum
(Marzano, 2003).

15. The power is in the data…
To be effective, however, feedback must be
timely and connected to the content being
learned in class—two criteria that student
response systems meet. (Ferriter, 2009)

16. The power is in the data…
Responders enable teachers to collect
information about student mastery several
times each class period and see results
instantly. Teachers can quickly scan this
information for patterns showing which
students are—or aren't—"getting it" and make
in-the-moment adjustments to teaching on the
basis of something more than professional
hunches. (Ferriter, 2009)

17. Bibliography
Ferriter, William. (2009). Student responders: feedback at their
fingertips. Educational Leadership, 67(3), Retrieved from
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-
leadership/nov09/vol67/num03/Student-Responders@-Feedback-at-
Their-Fingertips.aspx