Teachers have been using Turning Point with students since last year to assess student achievement. I have heard a lot of great feedback from teachers and students! Turning Point is a system that combines software based in Power Point with hardware that resembles TV remote controls (we call them clickers). Questions are shown through a computer and projector and students get to 'vote in' their answers. The class gets immediate feedback once all the votes are submitted. A graph displays what percentage of students voted for each answer choice. Teachers can create their own questions or use the questions from our Pro-Ohio test practice software. Teachers can quickly and easily see how the class is understanding concepts and use the results from the graphs to guide instruction and discuss each question. Students have fun with the clickers and feel like they are voting in on a game show! It is a great way to motivate students to participate!
We have a new software program to use with our Turning Point clickers and Pro-Ohio. It is called the CCI Application and it is connected to the Pro-Ohio testing database. CCI stands for 'Classroom Clicker Integration'. In the past, we have used Turning Point software with pre-created slides containing questions from the Pro-Ohio tests. It has been a great way to quickly assess student comprehension in a whole-group environment. The only down side was they way the reporting worked. Teachers needed to run reports from Turning Point to see the results from the tests as well as run reports from Pro-Ohio to see how students were progressing using their individual accounts. Since the questions were the same in Turning Point as they were in the Pro-Ohio individual accounts, teachers would compare the two reports to look at progress. The new CCI Application sends the whole-group test results directly to the Pro-Ohio database. The software tracks answers from each student and imports them directly to individual student accounts. Teachers no longer have to worry about saving test results and going to multiple places to see them. Now, all they have to do is log into Pro-Ohio to see how students are progressing with the standards. Teachers can still use the Turning Point software to create their own questions, however the CCI Application will make using Pro-Ohio questions a much smoother process.
Both Morgan and Elda are just getting started with the new CCI software. They will use a combination of the clickers and individual computers/log ins to help students prepare for upcoming tests. I have worked with several teachers in the past few weeks and have more on my schedule for the upcoming weeks. Everyone is doing a GREAT job jumping in with the new software!
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