The use of a computerized student response system in the Fall 1995 introductory level Physics course for science educators at Kansas State University was intended to foster the development of an interactive learning environment. A goal of the Concepts of Physics course is to have students do Physics based activities arranged in the learning cycle. A computerized student response system was used in addition to the learning cycle in an effort to ascertain whether or not students understood the concepts they were being taught. Students, therefore, received questions from the main computer directly relevant to their needs and were prompted to respond to these questions revealing the degree to which they understood the Physics concepts. The intent of this study was to measure the effectiveness of the system in three areas: (1) the students' attitudes towards computer technology, (2) the students' attitudes towards the classroom lecture environment, and (3) the academic performance of the students with respect to their four semester test scores and their score on the final examination. 

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