eInstruction CPSrf response pad

The CIT Auditorium is now equipped with the state-of-the-art interactive response system – the CPSrf Higher Education – from eInstruction. CPSrf allows users to elicit responses to questions and tabulate results on the fly.

CPSrf – the Classroom Performance System, radio frequency – is a combination of hardware and software which promotes audience participation and enables instant feedback. Individual response pads communicate via a radio frequency receiver connected to a PC. The CPS software installed on the computer can work in conjunction with PowerPoint or on its own.

The most basic use of CPSrf is to employ it as an audience response system during lessons. This can be used to quickly gauge understanding of a topic. In this scenario, CPSrf works in a similar manner as 'Ask the Audience' in the popular television game show, Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?

Users can either plan for questions to appear at appropriate points during the lecture/presentation, or they can ask questions as they go along. The CPS software is powerful enough to accommodate not only these functions but to generate reports in different formats as well as create Challenge Boards (quizzes). More importantly, CPS software allows the creation and administration of summative, diagnostic and formative assessments.

CIT is currently looking into the possibility of a semestral loan scheme and a partnership programme for one-off events.

N. Sivasothi, Education & Research Officer at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, Faculty of Science, writes about the recent eInstruction CPSrf product knowledge and demonstration session: Overcoming the "silent majority"