ERIC EJ1069726: "There Is No Single Right pdf

ERIC EJ1069726: "There Is No Single Right

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Education is meant to open your mind, but is that what universities are really doing? Rather than fostering open-minded thinking, the format of lecturing, the lack of interaction among students and instructors, and the passive nature of learning are likely producing the opposite, students with closed-minds. The development and implementation of Active Learning Classrooms (ALC) has the capability to counteract this negative trend by providing a configuration suited for more collaborative learning and opportunities for students to share their thoughts, hear other perspectives from peers, and have the potential to become more open-minded. A description of a study on students in a fourth year psychology course is provided in which the instructor changed her course in order to use the ALC to its fullest capacity. Students were also given an Actively Open-minded Thinking questionnaire (Stanovich & West, 1997) pre and post course, with results indicating that open-minded thinking increased over the term.

Although there are many components that could contribute to this result, the impact that educational spaces may have on student learning are discussed

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 2015
• Year: 2015
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Undergraduate Students, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Class Organization, Psychology, Majors (Students), Questionnaires, Scores, Statistical Analysis, Pretests Posttests, Chen, Victoria

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