Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, Vol 9(2), Jun 2023, 150-158; doi:10.1037/stl0000204
Statistics courses are intimidating for many psychology students. The current study introduced and tested an active learning strategy that incorporates puzzles to engage students and promote learning. This work drew on the evidence-based strategies of collaborative and game-based learning to create an escape-room-inspired classroom review activity. The activity was tested in an undergraduate introductory statistics course with N = 44 participating students. Across two exam review sessions, the collaborative puzzle activity significantly increased content knowledge and student self-efficacy. The results present promising initial evidence for the effectiveness of this novel pedagogical technique. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)