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Multiple research studies have already proven the validity of practices such as engagement, immediate feedback, assessment for learning, data driven decision making, peer instruction, active learning and agile teaching. Few technologies have the flexibility to support such a diverse range of instructional models which in the past have been nearly impossible to implement due to logistical constraints.

Turning products' ability to connect the instructor to each learner for every question and compile immediate digital data overcomes the challenges of time, space and equitable implementation that have previously impeded the successful application of proven methods in all learning environments. Below are some of our customer success stories. Tell us about your stories.

Vanderbilt University

Challenge: Uncover student's understanding of material in the moment to dynamically adapt teaching.

Solution: Assess students immediately with Turning Technologies’ student response system and change instruction to meet student needs through “agile teaching."

Results: Through the practice of “agile teaching,” Dr. Derek Bruff, Assistant Director of Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching, integrated student response systems to promote higher cognitive level questioning. As results of peers display, students are more motivated to engage in class discussion. The use of collected data can provide great insight into which teaching practices result in increasing the impact of student learning.

Abilene Christian University

Challenge: Create a mobile learning environment for today’s technology driven students.

Solution: Turning Technologies’ ResponseWare® instantly turns student iPhone® and BlackBerry® smartphones as well as laptops into interactive student response systems.

Results: As part of their campus-wide mobile learning initiative, ACU distributed Apple® iPhone and iPod® touch mobile devices to all incoming first year students. Turning Technologies' ResponseWare was loaded onto each student’s device and has been used as their “clicker” for in-class polling and assessment. ACU and Turning Technologies have collaborated on multiple events to include the ACU Mobile Learning Conference for both primary and secondary as well as post secondary education.

Harvard University

Challenge: Enhance proven Peer Instruction pedagogy to increase student learning.

Solution: Integrate Turning Technologies’ student response system to create a more open classroom, encouraging discussion and engagement.

Results: Developer of the proven teaching methodology known as Peer Instruction (essentially a convince-your-neighbor discussion), Dr. Eric Mazur is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard and an internationally recognized scientist and researcher. He leads a vigorous research program in optical physics and supervises one of the largest research groups in the Physics Department at Harvard. Dr. Mazur also serves as the Chairman of the Turning Technologies Instructional Strategy Advisory Group.

• The Peer Instruction model has resulted in an increase both in the percentage of correct answers and the confidence of the students.
• In one of Mazur’s studies, close to one third of the class correctly revised their initially incorrect answer, while only 3% changed from correct to incorrect.
• On average, student performance improves by a letter grade.

Madison Secondary Middle School

Challenge: Five consecutive years of failing to meet learning progress measurements.

Solution: Turning Technologies’ student response systems offer teachers the opportunity to teach every student on their individual learning level.

Results: A full integration of response technology into every classroom at Madison Secondary School allowed all 430 students to be assessed daily in order to improve the quality of education. By year’s end, Madison Secondary School met learning progress measurements.

Wake County Secondary Schools

Challenge: Create renewed excitement for education.

Solution: Turning Technologies’ student response system creates a more comprehensive learning environment while increasing student excitement towards learning.

Results: After implementing student response technology into the school system, a random sampling of five classes revealed the following results.

• Overall 15% increase in student achievement.
• 100% of students preferred learning with a student response system.
• 100% of teachers preferred teaching with a student response system.

Phoenix Secondary School

Challenge: Create a more engaging learning environment for alternative secondary school students.

Solution: Increase student attentiveness and engagement during class with Turning Technologies’ student response system.

Results: For three years, Todd Shultz ‘s enhanced learning environment resulted in improved student engagement and increased student achievement. Todd Shultz was recognized with an award for his innovative teaching practice using student response.

Sixth Street Prep School

Challenge: Three years of declining student performance.

Solution: Improved teaching methodology of every teacher facilitated through the daily use of Turning Technologies’ innovative student response systems.

Results: School demographics include 85% disadvantaged students. With the help of student response systems Sixth Street Prep has beat the odds and exceed expected student progress on standard assessments as follows:

• Math scores from 30% to 94.2%
• Science from 14% to 92%
• Reading from 17% to 80.3%

E.J. Brown Primary School

Challenge: Enhance student classroom performance of primary school students.

Solution: Established engaging learning environment using Turning Technologies’ student response systems.

Results: With just one year of implementation using student response technology, teachers have already reported significant improvements. Impressed by these results, an expansion of response technology to middle level learners is planned for the 2009-2010 school year.

• Improved oral comprehension
• Increase of students’ on-task behavior to 98%

Learning Gate Community School

Challenge: To engage 21st century students and maintain a low ecological footprint.

Solution: Turning Technologies’ student response system gathers feedback from all students and reduces the amount of paper used for traditional assessments.

Results: After implementing Turning Technologies’ student response system Learning Gate kept its commitment to positively affect the environment. Within the first few uses, educators quickly realized how powerful the tool truly is and observed the excitement students had about the new learning process. The instant feedback allows the students to see where their comprehension level is compared to other students.

Bloomington Hospital

Challenge: Gather feedback and honest opinions from employees during HR meetings when hospital was being acquired by a larger health care system.

Solution: Turning Technologies' ResponseCard AnyWhere handheld receiver allowed the administration to gather opinions in an environment that provided for anonymous feedback. Results were collected and only displayed to the presenter to direct the ensuing discussion.

Results: Using audience response allowed the senior team to gauge reactions of its newly acquired employees to specific topics. The ResponseCard AnyWhere provided a voice for all employees without spotlighting the individual. The administration was able to understand employee ideas, opinions and interests. The system is used to educate, inform and test out new concepts or philosophies in order to calibrate programs.

Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning

Challenge: Collect information from the community for its GO TO 2040 development plan.

Solution: After using an outdated audience response system, the agency upgraded to TurningPoint to instantly collect public opinions without using clunky and complicated technology.

Results: TurningPoint was integrated into community outreach programs to vote on changes to the region. The system allowed the agency to present an initial scenario, have participants vote according to the importance of factors and then display results of how the area would be affected. Previously, the agency couldn't really tell if the entire community agreed or not because there were a few loud voices. The system was very powerful in showing what the entire community wanted.