Its lead authors, Amedee Marchand Martella, a National Science Foundation postdoctoral ... like whether the students in the active-learning and lecture conditions were sufficiently comparable ...

Students in traditional lectures are 55% more ... The findings suggest that active-learning approaches could improve student retention in science disciplines, says Susan Singer, director of ...

Other instructors are increasing student engagement by introducing active learning practices borrowed or adapted from discussion classes during large lectures. In "Learning that Lasts a Lifetime: ...

A case in point is a 2019 study led by Louis Deslauriers, director of science teaching ... to either an active-learning classroom or a passive-learning one relying on lectures.

Already crafted lectures can be easily turned into interactive ... Wenderoth, M. P. (2014). Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Proceedings of the ...

Perhaps they actually felt like they learned more from lectures than they did from active learning." In addition to Deslauriers, the study is authored by Director of Science Education and Lecturer ...

Naturally, Wieman turned to science to make sense of the trend ... that physics students in an active learning class scored almost twice as well as peers in a more traditional lecture class covering ...

in Science) have purposely matched award-winning lecturers with inexperienced teachers who do active learning and found that the students did worse when given "brilliant lectures." We've yet to ...

This fall, lectures from CSE 131, Computer Science I, CSE 241 ... “captured” and modularized into smaller chunks. As the active learning transformation is phased in over several years ...

Hwang (2017). Pausing the classroom lecture: the use of clickers to facilitate student engagement. Active Learning in Higher Education, 18:157-172. Rowe, M. B. (1980). Pausing Principles and their ...

In math and physics classes (some of which already use active learning methods), professors can give students time to work through problems with each other. In social science lectures, students ...

There are many active learning ... Facilitating Learning. Instructor poses a question and students write their answers on a piece of paper. They crumple it up and throw it at a box held by the ...