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This project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of various student-centered teaching techniques on student learning and engagement.

August 30, 2016Open Access

You Can Lead Students to Water, but You Can't Make Them Think: An Assessment of Student Engagement and Learning through Student-Centered Teaching

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This project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of various student-centered teaching techniques on student learning and engagement.
Assessment of three teaching techniques: Team-Based Learning, Incentive-Based Learning, and Flipped Classroom.
Conducted in a criminal justice and criminology research methods class.
Measures were applied to evaluate student engagement and learning outcomes.
Students showed significant engagement with the course under the evaluated techniques.
Empirical evidence suggests improvements in learning outcomes from student-centered teaching.

Abstract

The current project conducted an assessment of three student-centered teaching techniques in a criminal justice and criminology research methods class: Team-Based Learning, Incentive-Based Learning, and Flipped Classroom. The project sought to ascertain to what extent these techniques improved or impacted student learning outcomes and engagement in this traditionally difficult course. Results provide empirical evidence that students were significantly engaged with the course and benefited from these pedagogical techniques.

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