Assessing to Learn in the Classroom (A2LC)

With A2LC, you have access to hundreds of carefully crafted questions for Audience Response Systems. Over the last decade the University of Massachusetts Physics Education Research Group (UMPERG) has tested and refined Audience Response System content that allows instructors to pinpoint exactly where their students are facing challenges in logic. These questions focus on the most important and challenging concepts in physics, and unlike most clicker content, A2LC’s questions offer up to 10 answers from which students can select.

From Author Ian Beatty:
An instructor new to response system teaching faces the daunting task of climbing the learning curve "live," in class, without a safety net. This can be time-consuming and frustrating. Enter Assessing-to-Learn in the Classroom. A2LC provides an extensive library of carefully designed, class-tested questions to use as the core of your in-class curriculum.

Instructors can obtain the A2LC questions pre-formatted and ready to go on a Serway JoinIn on TurningPoint CD-ROM, available exclusively for higher education from our partnership with Turning Technologies. JoinIn™ is the easiest way to turn your lecture hall into a personal, fully interactive experience for your students. JoinIn on TurningPoint is simply the easiest, most powerful, completely interactive Microsoft® PowerPoint® tool available today. By using JoinIn, you can pose text-specific questions to a large group, gather results, and display students’ answers seamlessly within the PowerPoint slides of your own lecture—in conjunction with the "clicker" hardware of your choice.