Prior experience with active learning methods promote adoption of such methods

April 7, 2021 Prasanth

Prior experience with active learning methods promote adoption of such methods

Instructors are more likely to adopt active learning methods when they have exposure to active learning methods or have participated in education research projects.

February 3, 2021 Prasanth

Students rarely use advanced problem solving strategies that they were explicitly taught in class

Students rarely use advanced problem solving strategies while solving problems even when these strategies had been taught in class. Explicit instruction that scaffolds varying levels of cognitive load inherent in these methods may be necessary for students to effectively use such strategies.

October 14, 2020 Prasanth

Does prior training in a VR environment help students learn better from VR based instruction?

Prior training in a VR environment on a topic unrelated to electrostatics helps students familiarize themselves with the environment, but doesn’t provide any additional learning benefits.

March 18, 2020 Prasanth

Online delivery of Research Based Assessments

Research conducted across 8 institutions, covering 2 introductory-level course and 10 upper-division courses (for a total of 1879 students), suggests that, even in the worst case, only a small percentage of students engage in behaviors such as using external resources while answering Research Based Assessments and this has a negligible effect on the class average.