The effects of active learning on students' memories for course content

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The Psychology of Gender (2011, background): “Students learn best when they are actively engaged in the learning process and associate the learned material to their existing knowledge base (Cherney, 2008).”
Twitter as a teaching practice to enhance active and informal learning in higher education: The case of sustainable tweets (2012, background): “It can also be an active learning tool (Cherney, 2008) that promotes connections with real-life learning, thereby encouraging critical reflection and fostering enhanced understanding (Bonwell and Eison, 1991).”
Variables Associated With Achievement in Higher Education: A Systematic Review of Meta-Analyses (2017, background): “A third debate concerns the optimal level of social interaction and student activity in courses (Cherney, 2008).”
Exploring the potential of role play in higher education: development of a typology and teacher guidelines (2012, background): “There is an extensive range of active learning approaches, including role-play, that higher education teachers may use to engage students potentially enhancing student understanding (Cherney, 2008).”
Is Active Learning Like Broccoli? Student Perceptions of Active Learning in Large Lecture Classes. (2011, background): “Thus, active learning does not involve just doing activities; there must be opportunity for students to reflect, evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and communicate on or about information (Fink, 2003).”