1. Technology: Integrating Teaching and Learning
Audience Response Systems
Steve Gregor

2. Audience Response System
An audience response system (ARS) is a system which allows students to respond to instructor prompts or questions through a hand held device (Micheletto, 2011). The ARS records and displays student responses (Micheletto, 2011).
Most ARSs allow the instructor to display student results to the class.

3. ARS Hardware and Software
Hardware needed
Student handheld device: cell phone, laptop, keypad, etc.
Instructor computer
If the ARS is not Web-based, the instructor will also need a receiver
Visual device: monitor, projector, etc.
ARS
Web-based ARS
ARS Software/System

4. The Research on ARSs
ARSs have been found to improve student attendance, attention, participation, student achievement, and engagement (Kay & LeSage, 2009).
ARSs allow instructors to use student feedback to modify instruction (Kay & LeSage, 2009). In turn, this improves student understanding and teacher quality (Kay & LeSAge, 2009).

5. ARS uses Assessments Facilitate Discussions Interactive Lectures
Quizzes, Tests, etc.
Facilitate Discussions
Interactive Lectures
Trivia
Review

6. How have we used ARSs? Department Meeting Trivia Discussions
Class Warm-Up
Exit Card

7. References
Kay, R. H. & LeSage, A. (2009). Examining the benefits and challenges of using audience response systems: A review of the literature. Computers & Education, 53, Micheletto, M. J. (2011). Conducting a classroom mini-experiment using an audience response system: Demonstrating the isolation effect. Journal of College Teaching and Learning, 8(8), 1-13.