How Audience Response systems help in education

Audience response systems are educational technologies that
gives the educators an ICT (information and communication technology) edge to quickly gather and evaluate learner responses to the questions asked during the classroom learning session. Audience response Systems are generally used in the following mode. First, an educator asked questions in different formats such as yes or no, multiple choice question, numeric, text, alphanumeric etc to the students. The learners read the question and give their responses to the questions using wireless handsets, which look like mobile keypads. The audience response systems have a receiving device integrated to the educator's classroom computer that receives the responses of the students, send by their handsets. Audience response systems software installed on educator computer produces reports in the form of graphic charts such as bar chart and pie chart showing the number of student participated in the test and their answers. Educators then use these reports to assess the student and improve their learning skills. Students are more engaged in the lessons and develop team sprit using audience response systems. Audience response systems are modern teaching aids to promote active learning. By delivering lessons in conjunction with audience response systems, it is easy to keep the student attentive and focused about the subject during the classroom sessions. Many, schools, colleges and universities now use audience response systems to interact with students. Audience response systems truly can make every session more efficient and rapidly catches the student's attention. The technological development in this system has made them economical and teacher friendly.

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