Instructor’s Name

Deona McEnery

Course No., Name, and Call#

English 110 (freshmen composition); Call # 18325;

Semester Taught

Fall 2002

No. of Students

18

Type of Active Learning (AL): Cases/CL/ PBL/etc.

PBL

Frequency of AL: Used in how many percentage of your class.

Used 80% of the time

Brief Description of AL methods? How did you use them? Your reflection on how effective the methods were in enhancing student learning?

Used small discussion and peer review, student teaching, and one week of problem based learning where I gave them a problem, and they needed to do the research to learn about what the story was about. I used these methods as part of normal class activities, and have used all but the story problem and the student teaching projects many years before.

I believe these methods were very effective. Students looked forward to these activities and were more engaged in their learning. Since I lectured less, I also enjoyed class time more as I could spend more time helping students and interacting with them one-on-one.

Please rate

Considering the types of active learning methods (cooperative learning, problem-based learning, etc.) and how often they were used in your class, please rate the overall usage of AL method(s) in your current class as (please bold one): 1) Never, 2) Occasionally, 3) Often, and 4) Very often

If applicable, rate the overall usage of AL method(s) in your class taught in the previous semesters as (please bold one): 1) Never, 2) Occasionally, 3) Often, and 4) Very often

Class Score on the Survey of Student Engagement

Course URL (if any):

Other Comments

I enjoyed this semester very much, even though it was more workJ

Elizabeth Birmingham
Assistant Professor, Department of English
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