Using Clickers in Nonmajors- and Majors-Level Biology Courses: Student Opinion, Learning, and Long-Term Retention of Course Material

We thank Ellen Davis, Bruce Eshelman, and Stephen Freidman for helpful discussions on statistical analysis. We thank Lorna Wong for support in using the clickers and for helpful comments on the manuscript. We thank Denise Ehlen for assistance classifying questions using Bloom's taxonomy. We thank John Stone, Dean of Graduate Studies and Continuing Education and the UWW LEARN Center, for funding the retention study. Initial training in using clickers and development of the survey instrument was funded by the University of Wisconsin System Learning Technology Development Council and Office of Learning and Information Technology.