Conveners
R1-4 Faculty Workshop: Really flipping the classroom: empowering students as teachers (DPE/CEWIP)
- Patricia Mitchler
Prof.
James M. Fraser
(Queen's University)
01/06/2017, 08:00
Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)
Freeman et al. in their landmark 225-study metaanalysis determined that active learning increases student performance in STEM (PNAS 2014). They went so far as to state “If the experiments analyzed here had been conducted as randomized controlled trials of medical interventions, they may have been stopped for benefit“. Did they just conclude (in a paper cited over 1000 times) that smooth and...