Correction Notice: UBC Study Shows Students Learn More in Interactive Classes Than Lectures

Earlier this week, STUDYMagazine.com’s story, UBC Study Shows Students Learn More in Interactive Classes Than Lectures, contained factual errors that compromised the story’s content.

Please note:

• The ‘control’ class was not taught by Dr. Carl Wieman.
• The students were not “broken into” two groups for the sake of the experiment. These were two sections of an undergraduate physics course that were taught by two different instructors.
• One passage seemed to allude to the lecture students scoring better, when the opposite was found to be true.
• Dr. Wieman is not the former Associate Director of Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He currently holds that position.

We would like to sincerely apologize to Dr. Carl Wieman, and the entire staff of The University of British Columbia.

The original story has been updated to better reflect the study’s findings, and can be read here.