Strategies for Interactive Engagement in Large Lecture Science Survey Classes

by: Timothy F. Slater, Edward E. Prather, and Michael Zeilik

This chapter describes some things that faculty in large-enrollment introductory astronomy courses do to intellectually engage students in learning the material during class time. These strategies are easily transferable to other scientific disciplines; however, the effectiveness of these approaches has been particularly well documented from a research perspective in a large-enrollment introductory astronomy survey course for nonscience majors and is described in that context.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 1/1/2006Stock # PB205X_5

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