UW News
Mary Wenderoth
May 12, 2014
Improve grades, reduce failure – undergrads should tell profs ‘Don’t lecture me’
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A significantly greater number of students fail science, engineering and math courses that are taught lecture-style than fail with active learning according to the largest analysis ever of studies comparing lecturing to active learning in undergraduate education