Does Participatory Safety Education and Training Increase Learning?

摘要

The way college classes are taught influences the way the material is learned, retained and, one day, used in the real world to impact real people. In order to make a class not only interesting and entertaining but impactful and lasting, a professor must fully engage the students. In all levels of education, students are expected to attend classes. It is believed that getting knowledge from the class and being successful in the class is more likely to happen with attending classes. Several research studies have agreed that students benefit from attending classes (Clark et al., 2011; Cohn et al., 2006). The idea behind this practice is that the additional exposure to the material in a more active, hands-on environment will increase a student's understanding of what is being taught. This should, in theory, show overall grade improvement in the course. Another researcher claimed that attending classes was one of several factors that positively contribute to a student's academic success (Dollinger et al., 2008). In the literature, a negative correlation between absences and course grade has been shown, and this relationship strengthens as the number of absences increases (Silvestri, 2003).