Does the Room Matter? Active Learning in Traditional and Enhanced Lecture Spaces.

ABSTRACT: SCALE-UP-type classrooms, originating with the Student-Centered Active Learning Environment with Upside-down Pedagogies project, are designed to facilitate active learning by maximizing opportunities for interactions between students and embedding technology in the classroom. Positive impacts when active learning replaces lecture are well documented, both in traditional lecture halls and SCALE-UP-type classrooms. However, few studies have carefully analyzed student outcomes when comparable active learning-based instruction takes place in a traditional lecture hall and a SCALE-UP-type classroom. Using a quasi-experimental design, we compared student perceptions and performance between sections of a nonmajors biology course, one taught in a traditional lecture hall and one taught in a SCALE-

SUBMITTER: Stoltzfus JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5132365 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature