This document provides information about a staff development training on the use of audience response systems (ARS). The training will take place on January 28th from 2-4pm in room 173 of the Pavillion Oceania building. The training will discuss the advantages of ARS for actively engaging participants, increasing understanding, and getting feedback. It also provides examples of different types of questions that can be used with ARS, such as multiple choice, application, critical thinking, and monitoring questions. Challenges of using ARS and additional features are also mentioned.

1. Staff Development
training on the use of
“Audience Response
Systems”
Thursday 28 January 2:00 p.m.
(Pav. Oceania 173)
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3. Advantages
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 Actively engage participants during a
presentation
 Increase their level of understanding
 Get feedback from your participants

4. 1. A gender question: are you?
1. Female
2. Male
3. Undecided
68%
19%
13%3
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5. 2. Where are you from? Are you
from:
1. Americas
2. Africa
3. Oceania
4. Asia
5. Europa
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10%
3%
10%
13%
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6. Different
types of questions
and different
types of activities
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7. 3. According to research what is the
average attention spam participants have
during a lecture
1. 10-15 min
2. 15-20 min
3. 25-30 min
4. 35-40 min
5. 45 min
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10%
2
32%
3
45%
4
13%
5
0%
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8. 4. In 1979, the ILO received the Nobel
Peace Prize for its promotion of social
justice and peace among nations, True or
False
1. True
2. False
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65%2
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 False: the ILO received the Nobel Peace Prize
for its promotion of social justice and peace
among nations in 1969

10. Which Declaration was adopted in
2008?
1. The Declaration of
Philadelphia
2. The Declaration on
Fundamental
Principles and Rights
at Work
3. The Declaration on
Social Justice for a
Fair Globalisation
4. The Decent Work
Agenda
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9
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73
%
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 Correct answer : 3

12. Other potential questions you could ask
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application questions
These questions require participants to apply their knowledge and
understanding to particular situations and contexts. Application
questions often ask participants to make a decision or choice in a
given scenario, connect course content to "real-world" situations,
implement procedures or techniques, or predict the outcome of
experiments or even their peers' response to a subsequent
question.

13. The member states of the ILO meet at the International Labour
Conference, held every year in Geneva Switzerland in the month of
June. Each member State is represented by a delegation consisting
of:
1. One government delegate, two
employer delegates, a worker
delegate and their respective
advisers
2. One government delegate, one
employer delegate, two worker
delegates and their respective
advisers
3. Two government delegates,
one employer delegate, one
worker delegate and their
respective advisers
4. None of the above
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0%
2
9%
3
82%
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14. critical thinking questions
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requiring participants to analyze relationships among
multiple concepts or make evaluations based on
particular criteria. Often these questions are "one-best-
answer questions. These questions can be very
effective in preparing students to engage in class
discussions about their reasons.

15. What benefits do the International
Labour Standards provide today?
1. An international legal
framework for fair
and stable
globalization
2. A strategy for
reducing poverty
3. means of improving
economic
performance
4. A safety net in times
of economic crisis
34%
3%
0%
6%
56%5
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3
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16. The integration of audience response
systems in our courses is
1. Very useful and
creates a
pedagogical added
value
2. Useful but more in
the sense of
engaging participants
3. Not very useful but a
fun toy to play
around with
4. Not useful at all
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9%
45%45%
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17. More questions
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 Monitoring Questions: These are questions designed to provide
instructors with information about how their participants are approaching
the learning process in their courses. f.e. did they read the information and
documents prior to come to the course.
Experiment questions
 Audience response systems can also be used to collect data from
participants for classroom experiments often used in the social sciences (cf.
Gender)
Repeated questions
 These are questions before and after to track if the participant made
learning progress or changed perspective.

18. Experiment
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19. Several tests on
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 Gender
 Religion
 Nationality
 Disability
 Age

20. Type of activities
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- warming up of discussions
- formative and summative assessment / evaluation
- decision making processes
- gaming and quizzes
- attendance

21. Additional help: Bloom
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22. Analyse
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The following learning focus is written from which
perspective
 Trial and error learning
 Learning through association and
reinforcement
a) Behaviourism
b) Cognitive constructivism
c) Social constructivism

23. Synthesis
Does this report on wage policies provide
authentic and reliable information
 Yes
 No
 Unable to determine

24. Challenges
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- getting started takes some time (planning,
preparation, control)
- writing effective multiple choice questions can
be challenging

25. Additional features
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- anonymous (but not necessarily)
- possibility to generate reports
- possibility to aggregate data (f.e. gender,
region)
- possibility to include a timer (competition)

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PROCEDURES
INTERNAL SUPPORT
PRACTICAL TIPS (hand-out)

27. Please, provide an overall rating
for today’s presentation
1. Excellent
2. Good
3. Fair
4. Poor
100%
0%
0%
0%4
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2
1
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28. Did you learn something during
today’s presentation?
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1. Yes
2. No
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29. Additional resources
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 Blog
 http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=a34wfg8cwkp_1c2