What are Electronic Voting System?
Electronic Voting Systems (also known as Audience/Personal Response Systems) can be used within lectures and classes to increase student engagement and promote a deep and thoughtful approach to learning. The systems are simple in principle. You pose a question on the screen, and invite students to vote on this question. After polling is complete, you see a bar chart of the responses that were received. However, they can be a very powerful teaching tool. Examples of ways that EVS can be used include: • Diagnostic testing: find out what your students already know • Contingent teaching: use the results of polls to change your teaching plans to deliver exactly what the audience needs • Promoting class discussion: poll and ask for feedback on why different responses were chosen • Peer instruction: Encourage students to discuss questions, convincing each other of the correctness of their answers The latter method has been developed by Eriz Mazur, Professor of Physics at Harvard. You can find
