The present study examined the efficacy of clickers in a community college classroom. Specifically we sought to compare the effects of clicker technology on perceived knowledge and exam scores with the effectiveness of essays and pop quizzes. One hundred students completed surveys measuring presemester motivation to take psychology and baseline psychology knowledge. Regression analyses found that after controlling for motivation and baseline knowledge, students in the essay and pop quiz conditions reported greater perceived comprehension of the material as compared with the students in the clicker condition for two of the three exams. Additionally, students who wrote essays and took pop quizzes on the course material subsequently scored higher on the cumulative exam than did students in the clicker class, although there were no differences across conditions on Exam 1 and Exam 2 scores. Similarly, there were no significant differences across conditions on any of the exam scores when extra credit was factored into the grades. Implications for future research are discussed.