As universities attempt to integrate active learning into their lectures, a range of strategies is
emerging. Amongst the strategies is pre-prepared worksheets which students work through, facilitated
by the lecturer. Despite the fact that worksheets have not yet been the subject of much research
activity, there are instances of their use. Once such instance is by a pair of physics lecturers at
Mahidol University, Thailand. The worksheets, called guided worksheets as they provide structure for
students to take notes as the content in the lectures progresses, are prepared by the lecturers and
have been in use since 2004. Evaluations showed that the guided worksheets met their intent but
there were issues around certain topics which students found challenging. Concerted effort lead to
the development of research based specialized guided worksheets for those topics that had issues.
These specialized guided worksheets requiring substantially more interactions and student problem
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