Abstract

Significance The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has called for a 33% increase in the number of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) bachelor’s degrees completed per year and recommended adoption of empirically validated teaching practices as critical to achieving that goal. The studies analyzed here document that active learning leads to increases in examination performance that would raise average grades by a half a letter, and that failure rates under traditional lecturing increase by 55% over the rates observed under active learning. The analysis supports theory claiming that calls to increase the number of students receiving STEM degrees could be answered, at least in part, by abandoning traditional lecturing in favor of active learning.

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BachelorActive learning (machine learning)Mathematics educationPsychologyMathematicsPolitical scienceStatistics

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Year
2014
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article
Volume
111
Issue
23
Pages
8410-8415
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8548
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Scott Freeman, Sarah L. Eddy, Miles McDonough et al. (2014). Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 111 (23) , 8410-8415. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1319030111

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10.1073/pnas.1319030111