[RUME] Team-Based Learning

[Richard Hake]

Some mathematics educators may be interested in a recent post 
"Team-Based Learning" [Hake (2009)].

The abstract reads (slightly edited):

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ABSTRACT:  In a previous post "Re: Active Learning in Medicine" I 
discussed the implementation of Team-Based Learning (TBL) at the 
Singapore branch of the Duke Medical School. In a later post I posed 
five questions for subscribers to the TeamLearning list, and Bill 
Goffe posed another question "How does TBL compare with physicists' 
use of conceptests?"  Goffe's answer indicated both similarities and 
differences. Here I reference the online responses of TeamLearning 
subscribers to two of my questions: "What evidence supports the 
assertion that the first class undergoing TBL did extraordinarily 
well"; and "What's the difference between TBL  and PBL?" As for 
another question: "HAS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TBL AND PBL IN PROMOTING 
HIGHER-ORDER STUDENT LEARNING BEEN EVALUATED BY PRE/POST TESTING?" as 
far as I know, the answer is "No" for TBL and "Yes" for PBL 
(evidently only one evaluation due to Barbara Williams of the 
University of Delaware.) I suggest that just as physics education 
research (PER) may have something to learn from TBL and medical 
education, so TBL and medical education may have something to learn 
from PER.
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BTW - a Google <http://www.google.com/> search for [Team-Based 
Learning" Math] (with the quotes "...." but without the brackets 
[.....] yielded 308,000 hits on 17 May 2009 13:50:00-0700.

To access the complete 19 kB post please click on <http://tinyurl.com/qp8nwm>.

Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands.
<rrhake at earthlink.net>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi/>
<http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com/>

REFERENCES
Hake, R.R. 2009. "Team-Based Learning," online on the OPEN! AERA-I 
archives at  <http://tinyurl.com/qp8nwm>. Post of 15 May 2009 to 
AERA-I, Net-Gold, PhysLrnR, and TeamLearning-L.