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Using a hand-held Macintosh, Mazur asks the students bonus questions while he lectures. The students then enter the answers on several Hewlett-Packard computers which circulate through the classroom. Mazur's Macintosh records the answers, grades them immediately, then stores the results...
...Mazur and students alike can monitor the responses on a large screen at the front of Science Center B which acts as a seating chart. If a student answers correctly, their seat on the chart lights up in a shade of student answers correctly, their seat on the chart lights up in a shade of light blue. If the student is partially correct, a dark blue light appears. If the student's answer is completely wrong, their seat on the chart lights up bright red for everyone...
...Mazur says the purpose of the system is not to single out students who are doing poorly, but rather to help him improve his own teaching...
...This is a low-tech, instantaneous system, that allows me to give feed-back to the students during lectures," Mazur said. "They log in. I ask them a question, and then I can determine, from the percentage of students who answer correctly, how well I am teaching the subject matter...
Chris J. Hernandez '96, a student in Mazur's spring term class, said the process is essentially good, though he has some reservations...