To lecture or not to lecture?

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Exam scores improved through active learning

New research showing that US undergraduate students enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses featuring traditional lecturing are one-and-a-half times more likely to fail than are students in classes with so-called ‘active learning’, is getting a mixed response from academia.

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