A tale of two sections: an experiment to compare the effectiveness of a hybrid versus a traditional lecture format in introductory microbiology.

CBE Life Sci Educ · 2015 · PMC4353081 · PMID 25713096

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showed a trendp = 0.073so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

For the traditional section, however, the only significant predictors were prior GPA and ethnicity (note type was not analyzed for this section), although class standing showed a trend ( p = 0.073), and major had borderline significance ( p = 0.051).

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