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One of the newer professors, Gabriella Sciolla, who arrived in 2003, was teaching a TEAL class on circuits recently. She gauged the level of understanding in the room by throwing out a series of multiple-choice questions. The students “voted” with their wireless “personal response clickers” — the clickers are essential to TEAL — which transmitted the answers to a computer monitored by the professor and her assistants.

has replaced the traditional large introductory lecture with smaller classes that emphasize hands-on, interactive, collaborative learning.

resistance from students, who initially petitioned against it