Active learning is the new standard for teaching in higher education. As more faculty seek to expand their teaching practices by including active-learning activities that promote higher levels of learning, many are doing so in small doses by temporarily postponing traditional lectures in favor of group activities. While there is evidence…

With calls to reassess higher education teaching methods, active learning practices have quickly become a popular alternative to traditional lectures, especially in STEM courses that traditionally rely heavily on large-lecture formats. In this regard, active learning environments stand to better prepare students for life after college; however,…

College instructors faced a rapid transition to remote instruction in spring 2020, and with it a host of new teaching challenges. This qualitative study investigates what 26 college biology instructors learned about students and teaching during this time. We used semi-structured interviews and content analysis to identify instructor learning that…

Analyzes research findings relating to the students' learning of science on the basis of Piagetian theory. Concludes that present teaching techniques at the college level might be reaching less than half the student population and the science teacher must improve his teaching in order to talk to all of them. (CC)

Discusses the hierarchy of awareness levels through which a learner may pass, and emphasizes that science teachers, particularly at the college level, should attempt to use teaching methods that are compatible with the awareness of students. (JR)

Studied effects of unit sizes of reading materials on students' progress rates in an educational psychology course with a self-pacing instruction. Concluded that small unit size could aid in promoting studying behaviors, without the corresponding increase in the number of units being felt as a greater burden. (CC)