Important definitions

Question 1

Active learning (category Critical Thinking): What are Problem based learning?

Answer 1

PBL is a teaching approach that challenges students to learn concepts/principles by applying them to real-life problems

Question 2

Active learning (category Critical Thinking): Inquiry based lab

Answer 2

In Inquiry based lab, students engage in many of the same activities and thinking processes as scientists conducting research.

Question 3

Active learning (category Teamwork): Cooperative Learning

Answer 3

Cooperative Learning is the instructional use of small groups so that students work together to maximize their own and each other’s learning.

Question 4

Active learning (category Teamwork): Peer Instruction

Answer 4

Peer Instruction gives our students the opportunity to articulate, defend and refine their ideas as well as solutions to, to problems within the class

Question 5

Assessment using active learning techniques