Greater classroom diversity helps ensure that minority and white students alike are prepared for leadership at a time of rapid demographic change.
Teachers mention increased motivation, self-assurance, and greater classroom confidence and participation among other visible results of the program.
Items (reversed where necessary) were summed to produce a total Classroom Chaos score, with higher scores indicating greater classroom disorganization.
Greater classroom engagement may lead to greater learning and interactivity, which has been shown to improved clinical outcomes for patients.
Greater classroom discipline, as observed by researchers, is associated with lower levels of sexual experience for boys, but the mechanism for this is not clear.
In summary, abandoning curving practices in undergraduate biology courses and explicitly conveying this to students could promote greater classroom community and student collaboration, while reducing well-documented negative consequences of this grading practice (Humphreys et al., 1982).
