How does John engage students using the Multipurpose Concept Quiz Response Cards?
He prompts them to actively think on their own by constructing a process that makes them decide on an answer and also does not allow them to see what others are deciding! John’s Response cards consist of a pair of laminated 8½ 11 cards. One card is printed with “yes”, “true”, “A”, and “legal” while the other is printed with “no”, “false”, “B”, and “illegal”. The yes side was in green and the no side was in red. At the beginning of a lecture, each student receives both a yes and a no card. When John comes to a point in the lecture to use a concept quiz, he asks the students a question with two possible answers (yes/no or true/false or A/B or legal/illegal). All of the students vote simultaneously by holding up the card that matches their answer. However, the piece to decrease the popularity effect was that all cards looked the same from the back (all the backs of the cards were blue), so the students in the rear of class could not tell what students in front answered. In the Classroom J
