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Enquiry-based learning in large group settings

Enquiry-based learning in large group settings. Jane McNeil & Beverley Cook. SCALE-UP project. SCALE-UP Robert Beichner. Ability to solve problems is improved Conceptual understanding is increased Attendance and satisfaction are better Failure rates are reduced. Student-led.

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Enquiry-based learning in large group settings

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  1. Enquiry-based learning in large group settings Jane McNeil & Beverley Cook SCALE-UP project

  2. SCALE-UPRobert Beichner Ability to solve problems is improved Conceptual understanding is increased Attendance and satisfaction are better Failure rates are reduced

  3. Student-led • Pursuinginformation-active • What is the existing answer to my question? Authoring discovery-active How can I answer my question? Exploring existing knowledge Participating in building knowledge Identifying information-responsive What is the existing answer to this question? • Producingdiscovery-responsive • How can I answer this question? Staff-led Adapted from Levy 2009

  4. Before

  5. After

  6. PoojaVermaSecond year Law student SCALE-UP engages you and makes you think for yourself as opposed to being spoken at in a lecture…you are constantly learning and processing the law because you watch, say the videos, you read the guidance texts first and then when you come into the classroom you use that Patrick Gada Third year Sports Science student SCALE-UP has taught me that the way I can learn better is to go out and do more research myself so I have to take my own initiative of wanting to do research, of wanting to learn and also I have to try and think outside the box and try and think on my own feet

  7. SCALE-UP in Computing Implications for lesson designPracticalitiesExperience of teaching

  8. Extemporisation Nature of interaction Guiding, not constraining

  9. Engagement with material

  10. Preparation tasksStudent reporting

  11. Attendance Comparison of attendance for the same cohort Students enrolled = 103 SCALE-UP Term 1 Non-SCALE-UP Term 2

  12. Achievement Grade distribution for assignment Students enrolled = 103

  13. Student experiences

  14. Group workStudent reporting

  15. …continuedStudent reporting on group work

  16. Learning and engagementStudent reporting

  17. ConfidenceStudent reporting

  18. EBL in lectures

  19. Does SCALE-UP have benefits for Computing? Improved ability to solve problems? Increased conceptual understanding? Better attendance and satisfaction? Reduced failure rates?

  20. Thanks to Researchers Michaela Borg Gladson Chikwa Technical advice Marek Oledzki Royce McKie 37 Pilots Pilot leaders Module teams Students Making it happen Senior managers Libraries Estates IS TimetablingL&T Co-ordinators and Professor Robert Beichner

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