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 ...

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.

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Give us an example of a topic taught in a traditional lecture versus an "active learning" setting. A good example would be the teaching of what we would call pharmacokinetics — the science of ...

Scott Freeman and the other scholars behind a new study comparing the efficacy of lectures with more "active" forms of instruction in the science classroom are not ... overwhelming evidence that ...