background: failure in reaching the predetermined goals of education can be considered as one of the most important problems of educational systems. today, it is believed that active teaching methods are more effective than lecturing which lead to effective teaching. participation of students in education is one of the major factors of active learning. the purpose of the present study is to det...

Over the past few years the question of whether the lecture is an effective teaching method has been one of the most heatedly debated topics in the field of higher education. While research on the effectiveness of lectures has been carried out since at least the 1960s, the value of the lecture has been increasingly questioned recently for a number of reasons that include waning lecture attendan...

An experiment is carried out on a subset of a first year group in Semester 1, 2001 for five separate fiftyminute sessions. Five groups are taught using one teaching technique based around the idea of passive learning. Five further groups are taught using a second technique based on active learning within small groups. The remaining three groups face a third approach based on a combination of th...

The primary role of the vocational agriculture teacher has always been to help students learn knowledge and skills in agriculture. In order for the program to justify the time and money utilized on it, it is important that students be taught by competent teachers using a variety of teaching methods and using them appropriately (The Unfinished Agenda. 1986). A competent teacher is the essential ...

This research shows that active learning is not universally effective and, in fact, may inhibit learning for certain types of students. The results of this study show that as increased levels of active learning are utilized, student test scores decrease for those with a high grade point average. In contrast, test scores increase as active learning is introduced for students in the lower level g...

E ffective teachers do no simply present information for students to learn by rote for a good grade. Rather, they provide an environment in which students can engage with course material and both learn and interpret it for their own interest and goals. With this in mind, I have spent a considerable amount of time developing an active learning format for my introductory biology course, including...