Implementing Active Learning Department Wide: A Course Community for a Culture Change

Implementing Active Learning Department Wide: A Course Community for a Culture Change

A course community (CC) was formed to facilitate the implementation of active-learning materials in the Introductory Statistics course at a large southeastern U.S. university. Instructors met every two weeks for the semester before and the semester of the implementation. The CC helped instructors im...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lisa Bloomer Green, Nancy McCormick, Scott McDaniel, Ginger Holmes Rowell, Jeremy Strayer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-09-01
Series:Journal of Statistics Education
Subjects:
Active learning
Course community
Introductory statistics
Professional development
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10691898.2018.1527195
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Summary:A course community (CC) was formed to facilitate the implementation of active-learning materials in the Introductory Statistics course at a large southeastern U.S. university. Instructors met every two weeks for the semester before and the semester of the implementation. The CC helped instructors improve their content knowledge and pedagogical skills. Results show improvement in teacher attitudes and in student scores.
ISSN:1069-1898

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