Energize Lessons with the SMART Response XE Interactive Response System

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In chemistry, the term activation energy is simply defined as the minimum energy required to start a chemical reaction. And when it comes to teaching any type of STEM-related subject, it may sometimes feel as though it takes a lot of energy to get a reaction from your students.

That’s where the SMART Response XE interactive response system comes in. As one of SMART’s five interactive response systems, SMART Response
XE enables you to assess learning quickly. Students can instantly respond to science or math questions – whether they’re about chemical reactions, gravitational force or the periodic table – and demonstrate their understanding of a concept.
And the SMART Response XE system is the only interactive response system that includes remotes (or clickers) with a full QWERTY keyboard, enabling students to include math equations and scientific functions in their answers.

 

Accelerate Learning
Whether its chemistry, physics or calculus, students are often writing, balancing and solving equations. With the SMART Response XE system, you have the freedom to ask true-or-false, multiple choice and text-based questions to get an indication of student understanding or to go deeper into your assessments by having students answer questions using math expressions and scientific functions.
The system also includes a flexible feature called intelligent grading, allowing you to choose a range of answers that you’ll accept as correct. With intelligent grading, you can decide if you’ll recognize an answer only in its exact order, in any order or in its mathematical equivalent.

For example, when allowing for equivalent representations of the same answer, both of these acceleration formulas would be graded as correct by the SMART Response XE system:

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Get the right reaction
With SMART Response XE, you can quickly create math- or science-based questions using SMART Notebook collaborative learning software, and students can use their remotes to type in answers that contain equations, formulas or symbols.
When students finish answering, the remotes will instantly provide them with confidential feedback. The answers are also anonymously summarized as a pie chart or bar graph in SMART Notebook software, making it easy for you and your students to discuss, compare and learn from the answers.

 

Fast Fact
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• Complete assessment system – Experience the convenience of the wireless, keyboard-style remotes, a receiver and powerful assessment software
• Instant insight – Conduct formative and summative assessment to instantly gain insight into your students’ understanding of a concept or lesson
• Designed for middle and secondary lessons – Use the SMART Response XE system for teaching middle and secondary lesson content, including advanced math and science content. The remotes allow students to input math equations and scientific functions.
• Flexible assessment – Ask different types of questions, including true or false, yes or no, multiple choice, textbased, math expressions and scientific functions. And the intelligent grading feature enables you to choose a range of acceptable answers for a  question, allowing for multiple representations of the correct answer.
• Easy to manage – Use the Teacher Tools feature to create class lists and view and manage all your student assessment data in one location. The built-in gradebook enables you to record test scores, track performance and create reports.
• Integrated with SMART Notebook software – Create dynamic questions and assessments by accessing SMART Response directly in SMART Notebook software. With one touch, you can deliver assessments on the SMART Board interactive whiteboard. You can also show assessment results on a SMART Notebook page and add comments in digital ink.

Truly Insightful Assessment with SMART Response System

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Choose the following answer :

A. The flexibility to deliver both formative and summative assessments
B. A wide selection of content that is easy to access and aligns to education standards
C. Assessments that are easy to implement, engage students and can be tracked
D. Relevant professional development to help me learn new strategies for assessment and personalization
E. All of the above

If you answered ‘All of the above”, you answered the same as SMART ! It’s this combination that we believe will truly help educators gain insight into students’ learning and achieve better results.

The right combination for insight
True insight into learning means going beyond using a tool that allow students to respond with YES/NO, TRUE/FALSE.

Every learner is unique and to truly have insight into their learning, it’s necessary to have a support system – one that can help you stay connected to each student before, during and after a lesson, respond to individual learning needs and track responses to each student’s improvement and growth over the course of the year.

We believe that SMART Response interactive response systems, the SMART Exchange website and professional development make a pretty amazing assessment solution. It’s because this combination allows you to instantly assess students on almost any device, respond to your students’ needs, track their responses and develop long-term understanding of their learning.

SMART Response systems provide an engaging way for students to participate in lessons and demonstrate their understanding, and the wide variety of content on the SMART Exchange website allows you to find and customize lessons and quizzes to suit the needs of your entire classroom, a group of students or individual learners. And it’s easy to learn how to use these products to personalize learning and inspire achievement with our professional development offering.

Each product contributes to enabling engaging formative and summative assessments that can make a difference in students’ understanding of lessons. And together – they create an intuitive, engaging and meaningful assessment experience.

SMART Response Interactive Response Systems
• Four unique models designed for different needs – 1:1, K–12, inclusive and early education, and advanced math and science
• Integrated with SMART Notebook software , each system allows you to quickly and easily insert questions into your lessons to instantly assess student understanding
• Teacher Tools allows you to create assessment reports to evaluate student progress over the course of a year
• Can be used with industry-leading assessment platforms , like Acuity™ InFormative Assessment® Solution and eduphoria! SchoolObjects:aware™

The SMART Exchange Website
• Free content can be downloaded and customized to your classroom’s needs
• Over 60,000 education resources are available on the website
• More than 10,000 resources align directly to various state standards, including Common Core Standards
• Resources can be searched by grade, subject or keyword
• Many leading education publishers have developed content specifically for SMART products which can be searched for on the SMART Exchange website

Professional Development Over
15 different options for professional development on assessment Access PD in-person, online or at public or private events

Integration with On-line Assessment Platforms
SMART Response interactive response systems widely used assessment solutions for education so you can use the remotes from your SMART Response systems with third-party products, gaining more options for assessment and reporting

The following platforms integrate with SMART Response systems:
• A+™ Classroom Student Response Software
• Acuity InFormative Assessment Solution
• eduphoria! School Objects:aware
• Galileo K–12 Online Instructional Improvement System
• Ignite!™ Torch
• LearningStation® Insight online assessment platform
• Study Island

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