Learning is an active process. When students actively engage with the material, the information sticks better than when they process the material passively. In active processing, students think hard about the material or apply what they learn. In passive processing, students think relatively little about the material. The difference between active and passive processing lies in the extent to which students are prompted to think; the main indicator that learning is taking place. Active and passive lie on a continuum. A student can actively engage with a summary by thinking hard about how to concisely summarize the text in their own words. Or rather passively, by thinking little and writing a lot. The setup of your education can also be more active or passive. From a meta-analysis, an analysis of multiple studies, it was found that when teachers integrated active processing into their module, 33% more students completed the course compared to when teachers primarily explained the material and students listened. Students not only perform better with activating teaching methods, but they also appreciate these methods more and find them stimulating. So let students actively engage with the learning material. This increases their involvement and the learning outcomes of your lessons.
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