Talk by Dr. Edgar Fuller (Florida International University)

4/12/2024   Norm Asbjornson Hall 165  2:10-3:00pm

Active learning in STEM classrooms has been shown to increase student outcomes in multiple ways. We will discuss the implementation of an active-learning approach to calculus and present outcome data from a large-scale randomized study of its implementation that collected 1019 observations of student outcomes over three semesters. We discuss the classroom practices and approaches used by the curriculum and associated professional development. We will then compare fixed-effects models of student learning outcomes to mixed-effects models with random cluster level effects. We discuss the differences between the models and the resulting effect sizes suggested by the different factors included in the models.