Audience response systems and touch pad technology: their role in CME
✍ Scribed by Liane Blandford; Jocelyn Lockyer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 395 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-1912
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✦ Synopsis
Audience response systems, often referred to as touch pad technology (TPT), consist of many small calculator sized response pads, which are linked to a central computer and an audio isisual display. Teachers can use TPT to ask a series of multiple choice or true false questions to Hihich the audience respond. Responses ai-e presented graphically on a screen and used in teaching. This article discusses TPT and its potential role in adult learning, lists a numbel. of questions to consider when determining the utility of TPT for a specific COUI-se, discusses question development, and suggests directions f o r evaluating the technology in future applications so that CME professionals can begin to determine its appi-opt-iate role in contemporary CME.