Class Size Effects in Active Learning Physics Courses
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Charles J. De Leone, Wendell H. Potter, Catherine M. Ishikawa, Jacob Blickenstaff, and Patrick L. Hession
With the growth of the University of California, Davis, we have been forced to seek more space for our active learning based lower-division discussion/laboratories. Our new room holds twice as many students (48) as our existing laboratories. Since we still use the smaller rooms, students taking the one-year physics sequence have a chance to experience both the larger classroom environment and the smaller one. We took advantage of this situation to study the effect of class size on students and instructors in active learning physics courses. In this paper we report on the initial results of our study of these changes and offer some insight into the differences between larger and smaller active learning settings in physics.
Physics Education Research Conference 2001
Part of the PER Conference series Rochester, New York: July 25-26, 2001
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![]() De Leone, C., Potter, W., Ishikawa, C., Blickenstaff, J., & Hession, P. (2001, July 25-26). Class Size Effects in Active Learning Physics Courses. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2001, Rochester, New York. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4317&DocID=1022
![]() De Leone, C, W. Potter, C. Ishikawa, J. Blickenstaff, and P. Hession. "Class Size Effects in Active Learning Physics Courses." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2001, Rochester, New York, July 25-26, 2001. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4317&DocID=1022 (accessed 1 May 2025).
![]() De Leone, Charles, Wendell H. Potter, Catherine M. Ishikawa, Jacob Blickenstaff, and Patrick L. Hession. "Class Size Effects in Active Learning Physics Courses." Physics Education Research Conference 2001. Rochester, New York: 2001. of PER Conference. 1 May 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4317&DocID=1022>.
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Title = {Class Size Effects in Active Learning Physics Courses},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2001},
Address = {Rochester, New York},
Series = {PER Conference},
Month = {July 25-26},
Year = {2001}
}
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