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Classroom Performance System (CPS)

ATC Model and Bookstore Model

• Setting Up the CPS Software on Your PC
• Creating Questions in the CPS Software
• Setting Up the CPS in the Classroom
• Deploying Questions (created in the software) in Class
• Delivering Verbal (on-the-fly) or PowerPoint Slide Questions in Class

CPS Bookstore Model

• Connecting the CPS Bookstore Model to myWPI
• For Students: Activating Your Clicker Purchased at the Bookstore
• Using the CPS Bookstore Model to Deliver a Quiz or Exam

Are You a Mac User?

• Import/Export CPS Databases Between a PC and Mac
• CPS for Mac 1.33 Users Guide

Clicker Tips

External Resources

• Ohio State University: Designing Classes for Clickers
• Ohio State University: General Tips for Use
• University of Wisconsin: Clicker Best Practices
• Vanderbilt University: Teaching with Clickers

Research on Clickers

• Student Response Systems: A University of Wisconsin System Study of Clickers
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• Vanderbilt University: Exploring an Electronic Polling System for the Assessment of Student Progress in two Biomedical Engineering Courses
• University of Texas at Austin: Using CPS in Computer Sciences
• Vanderbilt University: Formative Assessment In Physiology Teaching Using A Wireless Classroom Communication System
• Monash University: Teaching Innovation Using A Computerised Audience Response System in ECE Courses
• University of Texas at Austin: Using classroom communication systems to support interaction and discussion in large ME class settings
• UMass Physics Education Research Group: Classroom Response Systems
• Cornell University: Asking Good Questions in the Mathematics Classroom
• University of Colorado: Clickers - A Gimmick that Works in Biology
• University of Texas at Austin: INTICE - Interactive Technology to Improve the Classroom Experience in Civil Engineering
• Using a Personal Response System in Economics Teaching
• California Polytechnic State University: Waking the Dead: Using interactive technology to engage passive listeners in the MIS classroom

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