Well, Marc Bolland, the chief executive, is still in explanation mode.
When asked why he insisted on wringing concessions out of California Pacific Medical Center in exchange for letting the company build a gigantic, 555-bed hospital near the intersection of Geary and Van Ness on Cathedral Hill, Lee launched into explanation mode.
First, in the majors' course, the peer discussion and instructor-explanation
For the weak and medium groups, the peer-discussion and instructor-explanation modes appeared equally effective, whereas for the strong group, the instructor mode appeared least effective.
However, the combination mode results in substantially higher learning gains compared with either the peer-discussion or instructor-explanation
Our data from the majors' genetics course show that the peer-discussion and instructor-explanation modes result in similar learning gains, at least for the weak and medium clicker performers.
For both the majors' and the nonmajors' courses, more time on average was spent considering answers to Q1 in the combination mode than in the peer-discussion or instructor-explanation modes, as might be expected (implications of these differences are explored in the Discussion).
As was true with the majors, the instructor-explanation mode was least effective for the strong students.
Strikingly, the strong clicker performers in both classes showed the smallest learning gains when the instructor-explanation mode was used.
However, for weak students in the nonmajors' course, the combination mode is only slightly more effective than the instructor-explanation mode.
The first is the size of the effect; the combination mode was on average approximately twice as effective in promoting learning gains as the instructor-explanation mode, in both courses.
