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Science inquiry – rhetoric or reality?

Inquiry in science classrooms: Rhetoric or reality? (Goodrum, 2006) summary While there’s been plenty of talk about science inquiry learning for decades, there has been limited evidence of it eventuating*. A pilot program called the Collaborative Australian Secondary Science Program (CASSP) and a study into its impact on student learning paved the Read more…

By Jay Ridgewell, 3 years1 year ago
Preference for the traditional lecture format decreased from 72.7% to 15.4%, while preference for the flipped classroom format increased from 27.3% to 84.6%
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Preference for flipping increases dramatically once students have flipped

The Flipped Classroom: A Course Redesign to Foster learning and Engagement in a Health Professions School (McLaughlin, et al., 2014) summary The authors flipped a first-year pharmacy course which resulted in an increase in students’ learning,  class attendance, and perceived value of the flipped classroom model. The graph above describes Read more…

By Jay Ridgewell, 3 years1 year ago
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