Sentences with phrase «average lecture class»

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However, some students at Princeton agreed with the article, and cited professors who had complained about the athletes in their classes for bringing down the average grade and for low attendance to lectures.

Loertscher says that after switching from traditional lectures to inquiry - based classes, she got more strongly positive and negative comments, but overall, her average student evaluations didn't change.

On average across all the studies, a little more than one - third of students in traditional lecture classes failed — that is, they either withdrew or got Fs or Ds, which generally means they were ineligible to take more advanced courses.

Thus, while problem - solving activities may be very effective if implemented in the correct way, simply inducing the average teacher employed today to shift time in class from lecture style presentations to problem solving, without concern for how this is implemented, contains little potential to increase student achievement.

This new study looked at an introductory biology class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that averaged nearly 400 students and was taught by one of the authors over six semesters — three in a traditional lecture format and three through active learning.