Hey Progress Book users! You can now upload your TurningPoint results right into Progress Book. Attached are video instructions on how it works. These videos will demonstrate:
You do need a scheme for all of this to work so contact your sales representative and he or she will email it to you.
Progress Book1 – DASL – participant list
A wireless audience response system offers many important benefits unattainable through traditional presentation methods.
Improves attentiveness
Meeting participants are more likely to remain attentive if they are engaged in the presentation. Assessment Technologies’ TurningPoint keeps them interested in what you’re presenting them.
Increases retention of information
Only a minuscule amount of information will be retained via passive learning methods. Audience response systems foster an active learning environment, which leads to an increased retention of the material presented.
Offers anonymous polling
Inevitably, some people will not want to publicly] share their opinions. Audience response systems make anonymous be involved in the meeting.
Enables tracking capabilities to gather individual data
Although participants can respond to questions anonymously, meeting facilitators have the option to gather data based on unique IDs assigned to each keypad (and therefore each participant). This feature makes it easy to use audience response systems for testing, training and assessment.
Sums and displays data immediately
Instantaneous data collection and presentation make your meetings more interesting as participants can gain immediate insight into your presentation topics based on aggregated feedback.
Speeds up decision making
Instant access to polling data also makes decision-making quicker. No need to wait for data analysts to run the numbers and make the graphs – the audience response software does it for you on the fly.
Emphasizes participant ownership of group decisions
Because everyone takes part in voting, they can gain consensus and feel confident in decisions reached by the group.
Creates an interactive and fun learning environment
Did you know that Assessment Technologies’ TurningPoint audience response system is able to run game shows?
Gathers data for reporting and analysis
In addition to the immediate graphical data generated, more specific data can be collected on the back-end, which can then be exported to a variety of data analysis tools for further study.
Confirms participant understanding of main points immediately
Instant display of data means you can see instantaneously whether or not participants understand the material presented. If they do, you can move ahead confidently. If they don’t, you can spend more time covering those topics.
Descriptive Article
Use of an audience response system during peer teaching among physical therapy students in human gross anatomy: Perceptions of peer teachers and students
Kevin R. Wait, Beth A. Cloud, Lindsey A. Forster, Tiffany M. Jones, Jessica J. Nokleby, Cortney R. Wolfe, James W. Youdas *
Program in Physical Therapy, Mayo School of Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
ABSTRACT
An audience response system (ARS) has become popular among educators in medicine and the health professions because of the system’s ability to engage listeners during a lecture presentation. No one has described the usefulness of ARS technology during planned nonlecture peer teaching sessions in gross anatomy instruction for health professionals. The unique feature of each peer teaching session was a nongraded 12-15 item ARS quiz assembled by six second-year doctor of physical therapy (DPT) students and purposely placed at the beginning of the review session for those first-year DPT students in attendance. This study used a ten-item questionnaire and a five-point Likert scale in addition to three open ended questions to survey perceptions of both first-year and second-year DPT students about the usefulness of ARS technology implemented during weekly interactive peer teaching sessions during a semester course in Anatomy for Physical Therapists. First-year students overwhelmingly acknowledged the ARS system permitted each student to self-assess his/her preparedness for a quiz or examination and compare his/her performance with that of classmates. Peer teachers recognized an ARS quiz provided them an opportunity to: (1) estimate first-year students’ level of understanding of anatomical concepts; and (2) effectively prepare first-year students for their weekly quizzes and future examinations. On the basis of the mutual benefits derived by both students/tutees and teachers/tutors, physical therapist educators may wish to consider using ARS technology to enhance teaching methods for a class in gross human anatomy. Anat Sci Educ 2: 286-293, 2009. © 2009 American Association of Anatomists.