Five Years of Peer Teaching in Astronomy: What do Student's Think of It?

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May 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004aas...204.8404d&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 204, #84.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.817

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Results from five years of peer instruction at the Universities of Chicago and Colorado will be presented. Peer teaching has students discuss questions with each other before responding in a large lecture class.
Use of the peer approach - even sparingly, once per class - produced a large amount of student enthusiasm. Assessment revealed some surprises. Discussion with peers was originally not considered "scientific" by many students because they considered themselves nonscientists and thought they could not really DO or TALK science. This was based on misconception of how scientists talk with each other. Considerable satisfaction was expressed by students about their participation, a typical comment being "Yes, it has made science much more interesting mainly because of the debate and theory involved." Talking with peers was different - and easier - than talking with even a very approachable professor. Peer pressure was a strong factor in getting students to work harder. There was no correlation between improvement in student's attitudes about science and their class grade; Students who received A's, B's, or C's expressed similar improvements in their attitudes about science and explained why. Peer instruction is a relatively easy way to get more student response in a large class. The method presented here involved only a small amount of instructor effort.

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