The Behavioral Effects of Forensics Participation

Teaching with Lecture or Debate? Testing the Effectiveness of Traditional versus Active Learning Methods of Instruction

“…Since these analyses extend over a long period of time, during which debaters experience a medley of influences on their thinking, isolating the impact of debates on student learning has proven problematic. The attraction of students with high cognitive abilities to formal debates hindered the establishment of an irrefutable causal link between participation in debates and improved critical thinking (McGlone 1974, 140). The dearth of scholarship comparing debates with other instructional techniques, and problems with the measurement of learning outcomes, have undermined the quality of empirical findings (Antepohl and Herzig 1999, 107).…”