Pre/post Comparisons
Repetition and interaction are core principles of adult education. We all know that good instructional design includes these three steps:
- Tell them what you're about to tell them
- Tell them the information
- Tell them what you just told them
Using audience response to ask questions in the form of a pretest before a lecture segment takes care of the first one and following up with a posttest after takes care of the third.
Breaking up long lectures to review content
increases attention and retention.
In addition, the pre/post comparison chart provides immediate feedback so the presenter can evaluate learning gain and the level of understanding reached. This technique allows instructors to cover misunderstood content imediately.
Evaluations
Traditional pen and paper evaluations take time for the participants to complete, have a low response rate, and then require additional resources to assemble the data into a meaningful report.
Some benefits of using the audience response system to complete evaluations include:
- Significantly better response rates
- Instant results
- Results can be separated by demographics
- Speaker evaluations can be done immediately after each presentation
Team Competitions
A little healthy competition helps make the learning experience fun. In addition to pre/post comparisons, audience response results can also be used as the basis for an interactive game show.
Turn your post-test into an
interactive team competition!
With themes like "Millionaire" , "Bowling" and "Formula One Racing" it's easy to see why adding interactivity to your next meeting will be a huge success.
