Classroom response systems, testing effects, and collaboration: Facilitating student readiness, engagement, and learning 
(Seminars)
21 June 2011
4.30pm
Venue: J3 Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Education, Epsom Campus, Gate 3, 74 Epsom Ave, Epsom
Contact info: Maree Ferens
Contact email: m.ferens@auckland.ac.nz
Faculty of Education seminar by Dan Robinson, Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dan will discuss findings from several studies from a recent line of research that has examined using clickers, or CRS, in higher education classrooms. He will also discuss ways in which he and his colleagues have extended Roddy Roediger’s team’s work on the testing effect, or test-enhanced learning, to classroom conditions where students take tests in collaborative groups or teams.
Dan Robinson is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD in Educational Psychology in 1993 from the University of Nebraska where he majored in both learning/cognition and statistics/research. He taught at Mississippi State University for four years (1993-1997) and the Universities of South Dakota (1997-1998) and Louisville (1998-1999) before coming to the University of Texas in 1999. Dr Robinson currently serves as the editor of Educational Psychology Review. His research interests include educational technology innovations that may facilitate learning, team-based approaches to learning, and examining trends concerning authoring, reviewing, and editing articles published in various educational journals and societies.
