ABSTRACT
Although classroom response systems (clickers) are gaining popularity in many disciplines, especially science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, where most of the empirical research on clicker use has predictably taken place, including the influential work of Harvard physics professor Eric Mazur, few teachers of humanities and the arts consider using clickers. The Office of Learning Technologies’ clicker sets are from Turning Technologies, a popular manufacturer of clicker sets and accompanying software. The software enables instructors to integrate poll questions into PowerPoint slides. The clickers are used for a quick, informal, ungraded quiz on the university’s academic integrity policy, which had been assigned reading, to underscore the author's serious expectations of their behavior. By using clickers to (painlessly) ascertain the students’ comprehension of queer theory concepts and clarifying aspects that confused them, which also helped them write more sophisticated interpretive essays, they more readily achieved course learning goal (develop a fundamental understanding of contemporary queer theory).
