“A Meeting of Minds”: Using Clickers for Critical Thinking and Discussion in Large Sociology Classes

Teaching Sociology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 18-27

  Mollborn, Stefanie ^a   Hoekstra, Angel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

active learning; clickers; critical thinking; student learning; student response systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951242782     PISSN: 0092055X     EISSN: 1939862X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0092055X09353890     Document Type: Article

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