Fig 1.
Views of two types of classrooms used in this study.
A) SCALE-UP classroom with round tables, moveable chairs, and smart boards; and B) standard auditorium classroom with fixed rows of seats.
Table 1.
Summary of demographic info of students who attended the introductory biology courses under the study.
Fig 2.
A representation of the SCALE-UP classroom model flowchart used in this study.
Table 2.
Examples of ponderable and group active learning exercises used in SCALE-UP course sections of General Biology I.
Fig 3.
Student experiences survey and mean scores of each survey item with standard errors.
Table 3.
Perceptions of students enrolled in SCALE-UP General Biology I course sections.
Fig 4.
Comparison of pre-test and post-test gain of knowledge in SCALE-UP and standard sections of General Biology I.
Fig 5.
Success rates before (standard) and after (SCALE-UP) in General Biology I.
a) individual semesters; and b) averages of SCALE-UP versus standard semesters studied.