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Monthly Archive: September 2019

Quarter3-2019

New Paper: Smaller Classes Promote Equitable Student Participation in STEM

Cissy Ballen, Anne E .Bjune, Christian Jørgensen and Sehoya Cotner have recently published the paper “Smaller Classes Promote Equitable Student Participation in STEM” in BioScience.   Abstract As science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) classrooms in higher education transition from lecturing to active learning, the frequency of student interactions in...

Quarter3-2019

Recommanded article on students’ (mis)perception of learning in active classes.

Louis Deslauriers and colleagues recently published “Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom” in PNAS. Significance Despite active learning being recognized as a superior method of instruction in the classroom, a major recent survey found that most college STEM instructors still...