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Students Who Don’t Participate in Class Discussions: They Are Not All Introverts

Todd Zakrajsek

Associate Professor - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


As a faculty developer, research showing that both active and engaged learning leads to better long-term learning outcomes (Freeman, et al., 2014) is omnipresent in my mind. Students benefit from working in groups and actively participating in class sessions. Given these benefits, ther