--- title: Active Learning and Pear Deck description: To some degree, we intuit that getting students actively involved in class will help them learn, but it's not always obvious just how much it helps them. It helps A LOT. Did you know that students in --- [![company logo](https://help.peardeck.com/hs-fs/hubfs/knowledge-base-v2.png?height=120&name=knowledge-base-v2.png)](https://help.peardeck.com) [Pear Deck Knowledge Base](https://help.peardeck.com/en/migrated) - [Go to www.peardeck.com](https://www.peardeck.com) Peardagogy - [Getting Started](https://help.peardeck.com/en/migrated/getting-started) - [Cool Things You Can Do](https://help.peardeck.com/en/migrated/cool-things-you-can-do) - [FAQs](https://help.peardeck.com/en/migrated/faqs) - [Pear Deck Vocabulary](https://help.peardeck.com/en/migrated/pear-deck-vocabulary) - [Peardagogy](https://help.peardeck.com/en/migrated/peardagogy) - [Technical & Legal Questions](https://help.peardeck.com/en/migrated/technical-legal-questions) [Back to home](https://help.peardeck.com/en/migrated) 1. [Pear Deck Knowledge Base](https://help.peardeck.com/en/migrated) 2. Peardagogy - [Getting Started](https://help.peardeck.com/en/migrated/getting-started) - [Cool Things You Can Do](https://help.peardeck.com/en/migrated/cool-things-you-can-do) - [FAQs](https://help.peardeck.com/en/migrated/faqs) - [Pear Deck Vocabulary](https://help.peardeck.com/en/migrated/pear-deck-vocabulary) - [Peardagogy](https://help.peardeck.com/en/migrated/peardagogy) - [Technical & Legal Questions](https://help.peardeck.com/en/migrated/technical-legal-questions) # Active Learning and Pear Deck To some degree, we intuit that [getting students actively involved](https://www.peardeck.com/active-learning/) in class will help them learn, but it's not always obvious just how much it helps them. It helps A LOT. Did you know that students in traditional lecture courses are 60% more likely to fail than students who learn the same material with active learning methods? Source: [http://www.pnas.org/content/111/23/8410.full.pdf](http://www.pnas.org/content/111/23/8410.full.pdf) ![](https://help.peardeck.com/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base%20Import/d33v4339jhl8k0.cloudfront.netdocsassets530d5436e4b00af3a406927bimages56a6638c9033603f7da346d7file-LwhlhFW4q3.png) ![](https://d33v4339jhl8k0.cloudfront.net/docs/assets/530d5436e4b00af3a406927b/images/56a663d09033603f7da346d9/file-e9G5LOJ2VE.png) ![](https://help.peardeck.com/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base%20Import/d33v4339jhl8k0.cloudfront.netdocsassets530d5436e4b00af3a406927bimages56a663d09033603f7da346d9file-e9G5LOJ2VE.png) Overall, teachers like you, who get students actively thinking about and discussing the material, see an average achievement bump of 6 percentage points. But that's just an average. Your methods are really helping traditionally [disadvantaged populations](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/opinion/sunday/are-college-lectures-unfair.html), like female, less affluent, and first generation students. **When you use active learning techniques, you get...** ![](https://help.peardeck.com/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base%20Import/d33v4339jhl8k0.cloudfront.netdocsassets530d5436e4b00af3a406927bimages56a6648a9033603f7da346e1file-VDYz5VtZjg.png) **Your hard work pays dividends** Students who feel engaged in material relevant to their lives and who feel a sense of belonging or connection to their teacher and peers, are more likely to stay in school. These students also show better classroom behavior, improving the atmosphere of the room. **Johns Hopkins + Pear Deck** In 2015, we worked with the NYC Department of Education Office of Innovation & EdTech iZone and Johns Hopkins University to study the efficacy of Pear Deck in the classroom. The study found the following: ![](https://help.peardeck.com/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base%20Import/d33v4339jhl8k0.cloudfront.netdocsassets530d5436e4b00af3a406927bimages56a6669cc6979143615622e4file-rRK2FvydBC.png) **Pear Deck Teachers Interacted with Students 16 Million Times in 2015** We know Pear Deck is just one piece of a much larger engagement puzzle and even this one piece is making a big difference for your students. The work you are doing to engage your students in your course material is tremendously important, the research shows this. The [team](https://www.peardeck.com/pear-deck-team) at Pear Deck promises to continue to deliver the most useful features and updates we can to make active learning easy in your classroom. Let's keep this engagement going by making a new deck! [![company logo](https://help.peardeck.com/hs-fs/hubfs/knowledge-base-v2.png?height=120&name=knowledge-base-v2.png)](https://help.peardeck.com) Pear Deck Knowledge Base - [![twitter_social_link_icon_alt_text](https://static.hsstatic.net/TemplateAssets/static-1.329/img/hs_default_template_images/modules/Follow+Me+-+Email/twitter_circle_color.png)](https://www.twitter.com/peardeck) - [Go to www.peardeck.com](https://www.peardeck.com) -