Finally, most instructors learn that if you have to do it or teach how to do it, you will retain and learn the most. The results shown in the learning pyramid are generalizations and you may not agree with these generalizations. Everyone in an educational institution has something to teach, and something to learn. Life is eclectic, no one way of teaching, learning or leading fits all situations. We don't succeed until we all succeed.
Diversity is the key to success.
As a result they do poorly on tests, become discouraged about the course and themselves and may drop the course or even worst drop out of school. The faculty using the classic lecture format gets defensive or hostile when students do poorly in their classes. This class is patterned after their methods. You can find out more about their ideas and concepts by visiting their web site at The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences of Arizona State University. We have abstracted the basic concepts of active learning in the following introductory information.