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PSU Tools 4 Active Learning
Active Learning Strategies
Active Learning Pedagogy
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The department of __________ aims to advance theory and practice that prepares future public health professionals, improves population health, and reduces health disparities across communities in Pennsylvania, the nation, and internationally.

What is the Department of Public Health Sciences?

100

Official’s Penn State Learning Management System (LMS)

What is Canvas?

100

Competition between students in format of a game to review course knowledge/facts (i.e Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire)

What is Game-based instruction?

100

Any instructional method that students do in the classroom other than passively listening to a lecture is referred to as __________ Learning.

What is Active Learning?

200

The year that the M. S. Hershey Foundation offered $50 million to The Pennsylvania State University to establish a medical school and teaching hospital in Hershey.

When is 1963?

200

A cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-defined conference room solution into one easy-to-use platform.

What is Zoom?

200

Problem is posed with 1-2 minutes to think independently, 3-5 minutes to discuss with another student, and then report finalized response out to rest of the class.

What is Think-pair-share instruction?

200

In an active learning environment, this person emerges as the main agent of learning.

What is Student?

300

The only person to every mix flavors at the Berkey Creamery.

Who is Bill Clinton?

300

A web-based writing assessment toolkit which allows instructors to provide feedback to students through markup tools, rubrics, proofing tools and originality reports to detect plagiarism.

What is TurnItIn?

300

Student’s creation of diagram that shows connections made between major concepts

What is Concept Mapping?

300

Active learning helps students to ascend Bloom’s Taxonomy from Remembering and Understanding domains to______________

Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating

400

The original colors of Penn State that were adopted in October 1887 up until 1890 before changing to white and blue.

What is Dark Pink and Black?

400

Live student response system that allows instructor to conduct formative assessment in which students respond to conceptual questions in a multiple choice format using computers or wireless technology.

What is PollEveryWhere / Clicker?

400

This technique allows students to evaluate the performance of the other group members based on the behaviors of others and use some type of recording tool like a checklist, rating scale, or rubric developed from the learning objectives

What is Peer Assessment?

400

Students’ awareness and understanding of their own thought processes.

What is Metacognition?

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