Interactive teaching methods double learning in undergraduate physics class - 0 views
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Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class,
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students in the interactive class were nearly twice as engaged as their counterparts in the traditional class
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scored nearly twice as well in a test designed to determine their grasp of complex physics concepts (average score 74 per cent vs. 41 per cent, with random guessing producing a score of 23 per cent). Attendance in the interactive class also increased by 20 per cent during the experiment.
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During the experimental week, Deslauriers and Schelew gave no formal lecturing but guided students through a series of activities that had previously been shown to enhance learning, such as paired and small-group discussions and active learning tasks, which included the use of remote-control "clickers" to provide feedback for in-class questions
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These activities require more work from the students, but the students report that they feel they are learning more and are more vested in their own learning,"