Team-Based Learning in a Statistical Literacy Class

Team-based learning (TBL) is a pedagogical strategy that uses groups of students working
together in teams to learn course material. The main learning objective in TBL is to provide
students the opportunity to practice course concepts during class-time. A key feature is
multiple-choice quizzes that students take individually and then re-take as a team. TBL was
originally conceived by Larry Michaelsen (University of Central Missouri) for his business
classes and has proven to be especially effective in training medical students. In this paper, we
describe an adaptation of TBL for an undergraduate statistical literacy course.