Active learning and student-centered pedagogy improve student attitudes and performance in introductory biology.

By P. Armbruster, Maya R. Patel, Erika Johnson, Martha R. Weiss. CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2009

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Student views on the use of a flipped classroom approach: Evidence from Australia (2014, background): “Armbruster et al. (2009) investigate the perception and performance of students in an introductory biology course where active learning was introduced through students being required to solve problems in groups in class, and find that student engagement and assessment performance is significantly im”
An integrative review of in-class activities that enable active learning in college science classroom settings (2017, methodology): “In some implementations of PBL, groups share their answers in class during an instructor-facilitated debriefing (Armbruster et al., 2009; Nogaj, 2013).”
One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Using Factor Analysis to Gather Validity Evidence When Using Surveys in Your Research (2019, background): “Generally, each question on these instruments asked about something different and did not involve extensive use of measures of validity to ensure that researchers were, in fact, measuring what they intended to measure (Armbruster et al., 2009; Rissing and Cogan, 2009; Eddy and Hogan, 2014).”