ScienceInsider feature on Smith’s findings third most popular article of 2014

UMaine News Release, Jan. 22, 2015 – Assistant Professor Michelle Smith recognizes that lecturing, as a teaching-learning technique, is not the most effective way to reach students. Her work, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was also featured in ScienceInsider, the on-line journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The ScienceInsider article describing the findings of her study was the third most popular of 2014.  Access the abstract of study, which was  co-authored by Smith, using the link above, and read the AAAS story here.