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Kolpikova, Elena P.; Chen, Derek C.; Doherty, Jennifer H. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2019
Preclass reading quizzes (RQs) have been shown to enhance student performance. Many instructors implementing evidence-based teaching assign preclass RQs to ensure their students are prepared to engage in class activities. Textbook companies now offer a gamified, adaptive-learning RQ format. In these RQs, students answer point-valued questions…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Student Attitudes, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Toews, Carl – PRIMUS, 2017
Inquiry-based pedagogies have a strong presence in proof-based undergraduate mathematics courses, but can be difficult to implement in courses that are large, procedural, or highly computational. An introductory course in statistics would thus seem an unlikely candidate for an inquiry-based approach, as these courses typically steer well clear of…
Descriptors: Computation, Inquiry, Introductory Courses, Statistics