EXERCISES
Comments on exercises and team work |
ACTIVE
General comments on active learning |
DISCUSSION
Comments on the importance of open and free discusion |
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Active Learning Works!
Comments made by
Undergraduate Students enrolled in my classes at
the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, from 1990 to 1999
In all my undergraduate classes, students are
asked several times to fill out "comment cards" on how the class is going
for them. They are asked to indicate what is going well and what they would
like changed.
I have picked out some of the cards that pertain to
cooperative
learning (team-based work and exercises) and active
learning, more generally.
Of the hundreds of cards, and with Bob Woodberry's help, I tried to pick
the most representative and informative comments. I did not
select by "positive or negative." Critical comments are included,
as well. However, you will not find many. Almost all students,
under cover of anonymity, still made positive comments.
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