By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology
The researchers found that students given most of the course content outside of the classroom scored 12 percent higher on tests than their counterparts in more traditional classes. Also, the study reported, women demonstrated a greater benefit from the flipped classroom on exam scores than men. The standard classes showed a consistent four to five percentage point difference between male and female students; there were “smaller gender differences” on exam scores within the flipped class than when the flipped approach was compared to the standard lecture approach. Also, students with lower GPAs in the flipped courses showed greater improvement in online homework problems in the weeks immediately before the exam than students with higher GPAs and better exam scores in the flipped- vs. standard-course modes.
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