2017 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2017

Session

R1-4 Faculty Workshop: Really flipping the classroom: empowering students as teachers (DPE/CEWIP)

R1-4

1 Jun 2017, 08:00

Botterell B143 (Queen's University)

Conveners

R1-4 Faculty Workshop: Really flipping the classroom: empowering students as teachers (DPE/CEWIP)

• Patricia Mitchler

1905. Really flipping the classroom: empowering students as teachers

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...