Faculty members seek to encourage student initiative, empower students, and select concepts that will allow students to transfer knowledge. Students work in isolation. Students interact with faculty to provide immediate feedback about performance for improvement. Students absorb, transcribe, memorize, and repeat information for content specific tasks such as quizzes and exams. Learning is individualistic and competitive.
Students experience learning in a collaborative and supportive environment.
Performance measured on content specific tasks. Students identify, analyze, and resolve problems using knowledge from previous experiences and courses, rather than simply recalling it. Grading is summative, and the instructor is the only evaluator. Students evaluate their own contributions as well as other members and the entire group. Students work in groups to solve problems.