Active Learning vs Passive Learning: Which is Best? Active learning in a classroom implies that students are actively involved and working during class time (either individually, in pairs, or in groups)while passive learning indicates that students are primarily taking notes while the instructor lectures. A recent study¹ measured students actual learning under these two formats as well as their feelings of learning. The study was very well designed: students in a college physics course were randomly assigned to a class period with either active learning or passive learning, the same content and handouts were used in both, and both instructors were highly rated. After the class, students were asked to rate how much they thought they had learned (on a 5-point Likert scale) and they also took a 20-question multiple choice exam to test how much they had actually learned. The results were very interesting: students thought that they learned more in the passive learning class but they actually learned more in the active learning class. 1. Deslauriers L, et al., "Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom,"PNAS, 116(39), September 24, 2019.

Active Learning vs Passive Learning: Which is Best? Active learning in a classroom implies that students are actively involved and working during class time (either individually, in pairs, or in groups)while passive learning indicates that students are primarily taking notes while the instructor lectures. A recent study¹ measured students actual learning under these two formats as well as their feelings of learning. The study was very well designed: students in a college physics course were randomly assigned to a class period with either active learning or passive learning, the same content and handouts were used in both, and both instructors were highly rated. After the class, students were asked to rate how much they thought they had learned (on a 5-point Likert scale) and they also took a 20-question multiple choice exam to test how much they had actually learned. The results were very interesting: students thought that they learned more in the passive learning class but they actually learned more in the active learning class. 1. Deslauriers L, et al., "Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom,"PNAS, 116(39), September 24, 2019.

Holt Mcdougal Larson Pre-algebra: Student Edition 2012

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Chapter11: Data Analysis And Probability

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