Traditional and Flipped Learning: Which Enhances Students’ Academic Performance Better?

Most of the learning institutions even before the global pandemic are using a blended learning strategy. One of the most promising and leading blended-strategy today is the Flipped Classroom Model (FCM). FCM, often called as inverted classroom or reversed instruction, is a teaching model where the content of the study is given outside the classroom and homework is done inside the classroom. Previous researches yields different results when FCM is compared with traditional learning in enhancing students’ academic performance. To address the problem, a meta-analysis has been conducted. In this study, 15 articles were chosen to be meta-analyzed. The researchers used the PRISMA model in conducting the meta-analysis and the Meta-essentials for data analysis. The analysis yields a p-value of 0.000 which means that there is a statistical significant effect by the intervention FCM to the academic performance of the students. The hedges’ g value of 0.93 has a verbal interpretation of large effect. Through subgroup analysis, it was found that FCM has a positive effect on the academic performance of the students in the subjects Physics and Mathematics with a p value of 0.000. This is also true in the subgroup, Geographical Location (Eastern and Western Countries), that yields a p-value of 0.000. Further, a moderator analysis on class size and intervention duration was also conducted. A significant p-value was found on the moderator implementation duration but not significant in the moderator class size. The analysis favors the longitudinal use of Flipped Classroom Model on enhancing student’s academic performance over Traditional Lecture Model in the subjects Physics and Mathematics regardless the class size of the students and the regions where the studies were conducted.

Virtual inverted classroom to replace in-person radiology lectures at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic - a prospective evaluation and historic comparison

Background In the time of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, in-person lectures had to be shifted to online learning. This study aimed to evaluate students’ and lecturers’ perception and effectiveness of a virtual inverted classroom (VIC) concept on clinical radiology in comparison to a historic control. Methods In the winter semester 2020/21, 136 fourth year medical students who completed the clinical radiology VIC during the pandemic, were included in the single centre, prospective study. Results were compared with a historic control that had finished the physical inverted classroom (PIC) in the immediately preceding year. The VIC consisted of an initial phase of self-determined preparation with learning videos and a second interactive phase of clinical case studies alternating between the virtual lecture hall and virtual buzz groups. At the end of the lecture series, students rated the lecture on a scale of 1 (most positive assessment) to 6 (most negative assessment) through an online survey platform. Additionally, they reported their impressions in free-form text. Lecturers were invited to comment on the VIC in a group interview. Main outcomes were final grades and student perception of the VIC. Results Students’ general impression of VIC was lower than that of PIC (median value of 3 [IQR 4, 2] and 1 [IQR 0, 0], p < 0.001), respectively, p < 0.001). The highest rating was achieved concerning use of the audience response system (median 1 [IQR 1, 0]), and the lowest concerning the buzz groups (median 4 [IQR 5, 3]). Students stated that they would have appreciated more details on reading images, greater focus on plenary case studies, and provision of exam related scripts. Lecturers would have liked better preparation by students, more activity of students, and stronger assistance for group support. Exam grades after VIC were better than after PIC (median 1 [IQR 2, 1] and 2 [IQR 2,1], respectively, p < 0.001). Conclusions Students’ overall perception of VIC was satisfactory, although worse than PIC. Final grades improved compared to PIC. Provided an adapted buzz group size and support, VIC may serve as complement in medical education once the pandemic is over.

Desenvolvimento de jogos didáticos para o aprimoramento do raciocínio lógico e matemático voltado a construção de projetos arquitetônicos

The teaching of mathematics linked to logic and reasoning is a great challenge for students of architecture and urbanism because, although relevant and required for an professional training appropriate, many students to show hardship or unmotivated in their subjects. In order to develop a better learning strategy, this job offer to show a project development a new teaching methodology and use of a didactic game able to do logical inquiry and mathematical reasoning to turned at the application of architectural projects. For this to happen. A quiz was started applied in students class about logic and reasoning in the architecture and urbanism course in the Vale do Itajaí (UNIVALI) University in Florianópolis and Balneário Camboriú. Then, a didactic game using inverted classroom concepts and mathematical subjects with easy and hard level linked to practical applications of students' to your professional future life was created and applied. The results obtained showed that 70% students reported doing mathematics difficulty, and 80% considered that didactic games may be a viable alternative to better e-learning. Search results also prove us that the use of the inverted methodology in the classroom associated with process of learning to mathematics students when linked in the challenges of the students' in your professional future life, are work tools main to attention capture for students. A important factor that will can contribute to the better learning and dissemination of mathematical and logical reasoning considered to be of greater complexity

Effects of inverted L2/Ln language pedagogy on student experiences and outcomes: The case of American Sign Language

Second language (L2) learning has largely occurred in the traditional lecture-based classroom setting. Studies show that the lecture format has an impact on student outcomes and perceptions of classroom learning. Negative impacts include insufficient time for reinforcement activities, reviewing lecture materials, and engaging in conversation between instructors and students. An innovative way to enhance L2 students’ classroom outcomes and perceptions is the inverted classroom pedagogy. This study assesses whether the inverted pedagogy leads to more positive student perspectives and higher student outcomes compared to traditional pedagogy in L2 classrooms in American Sign Language (ASL). In this study, student outcomes and instructor and student perceptions of inverted pedagogy for ASL are assessed using a mixed method design with one controlled (traditional) and one experimental (inverted) advanced ASL class in a post-secondary setting. Results suggest that the inverted pedagogy is an approach that is as viable as the traditional approach for teaching and learning ASL as an L2 that enables students to engage in meaningful activities and conversations.

Bringing the World to the Classroom: Teaching Statistics and Programming in a Project-Based Setting

ABSTRACT This article introduces how to teach an interactive, one-semester-long statistics and programming class. The setting also can be applied to shorter and longer classes as well as introductory and advanced courses. I propose a project-based seminar that also encompasses elements of an inverted classroom. As a result of this combination, the seminar supports students’ learning progress and also creates engaging virtual classes. To demonstrate how to apply a project-based seminar setting to teaching statistics and programming classes, I use an introductory class to data wrangling and management with the statistical software program R. Students are guided through a typical data science workflow that requires data management and data wrangling and concludes with visualizing and presenting first research results during a simulated mini-conference.

istory and updates on three decades of practice and evolution of the Child and Adolescent Statute –ECA

Result of a scientific initiation project (PROVIC), linked to the Law course of the educational institution ISECENSA, the study aimed to identify the lack of knowledge considered essential for the development of civil society and, given such result, provide the population with access to proposed knowledge. The Seminar took place on April 9, 2021. On the occasion, notions of rights as well as specific updates on the Statute of Children and Adolescents were shared with young people from the Teorema/UENF social entrance exam. The entiremethodology was organized and designed in such a way as to allow the updated information to reach those who, due to various circumstances, would not have access to it otherwise and, on the other hand, using the methods of the inverted classroom, we seek to provide students from the first periods of the Law course at ISECENSA, experiences so that the student could combine the theoretical material covered in the classroom with practical knowledge, teaching and guiding specific groups, through the presentation of seminars. The method chosen to carry out the project was the dialectic one, where prioritization in the construction of knowledge takes place through the relationship between the student with other students and with the world, in which teachers and students work together, reflect and develop content, making the more real and meaningful learning by developing and expanding multiple skills for everyone involved. As a method, dialectics represents reality in motion, going beyond appearances. Change becomes a possibility in the dialectical way of thinking through the overcoming of inequality in the production and distribution of the results of collective work. As a final result of the experience, the importance of disseminating updated legal information wascontacted so that we can obtain better reflections on the development of civil society