“…Students were involved as active participants rather than as passive receivers, the roles of their tutors being essentially those of facilitators and co‐ordinators; moreover, they were shown a clear relation between instructional objectives and learning activities. Finally, they were involved in a process of continuous assessment providing prompt feedback about the quality of their learning (Blunt and Blizard, 1973), and this in itself was based on the scheduled objectives. However, student attitudes in relation to the teaching/learning modes adopted were highly favourable so that in this context, and in the light of the retest results, the present evidence is at least supportive of the view that active learning and the use of group discussion can exercise important educational effects (Brewer, 1974; Blizard and Magin, 1973; Fleming and Stuckey, 1972).…”