Students whose STEM courses are taught using active learning perform better than those taught with traditional lectures. That was the top-line finding of a widely cited 2014 meta-analysis, and it ...

An approach that mixes lecture with problem-solving is supported in much of the contemporary research on large lecture pedagogy. For more information, see the resources below. Back to top . Resources.

Active Learning Beats Lectures ... They meta-analyzed 225 studies that cut across science disciplines, active-learning method, and class size. Whether chemistry or physics, ...

More learning in 'active learning' classrooms, but students don't know it Date: September 5, 2019 Source: Harvard University Summary: A new study shows that, though students felt like they learned ...

On average, students taught with active learning outperformed those taught by lectures by 6 percentage points on their exam. That's the difference between bumping a B- to a B or a B to a B+.

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 aiming low in describing the ...

In active learning classes, students’ average exam scores were shown to improve by around 6%, and in addition, students involved in traditional lecture were found to be 1.5 times more likely to fail ...

New instructors — trained in the importance of “active learning” techniques — often aren’t sure when lecturing is still a valid teaching strategy. Skip to content ADVERTISEMENT ...

Active learning and student attention. College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, ...

The Group for Teaching Innovation, in collaboration with CELT, invites you to our first Teaching Innovation Studio of the Spring semester. Active learning, in which students engage in the learning ...

Active courses may help Katy Rushlau When Ashley Harris stepped in to her biophysical chemistry class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this fall, she noticed a very different ...