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There are other factors, too (some mentioned further down in the article). Active learning classes are often messier, by which I mean that there is a lot of pe

There are other factors, too (some mentioned further down in the article). Active learning classes are often messier, by which I mean that there is a lot of people speaking up, sometimes things are proposed that are not quite right and there is discussion of how it is wrong and how to make it right, etc. I don't teach all my classes in 100% active ways, but it has seemed to me that in the classes that are more active I get significantly lower student evaluations. People often rate my knowledge of the subject as less, for instance. That is, when I ask in class, "What do you think?" at least some of them perceive, at least a bit, that I am not sure.

ghaff 7y ago
The subject matter, class size, and student body probably lent itself better to more active classes but I certainly found many of my business school classes more engaging than many of the big undergrad lectures I sat through. (There were some really good undergrad lecture classes as well although they were generally not core engineering/science classes.) I'm sure it's also true that forced participation in classes is doubtless tough for a lot of people. Again, not really an issue in business grad school, but I can see it being something of a problem in other settings.