Table 3.

Faculty- versus student-perceived barriers to the use of active learning

	Faculty Members	Students
Do not feel that active learning is a productive use of class time	0	45
Do not see active learning as a useful tool	0	22
Have become accustomed to lecture-based methods	44	91
Lack of administrative support	11	7
Lack of training in the area	22	53
Not enough class time to use active learning	89	41
Not enough time to develop the materials	33	29
Not feasible given class sizes	11	12
Unaware of the method	0	35
Other	0	27

Data are presented as percentages of total faculty or student respondents; n = 9 for faculty members and 116 for students. Faculty members were asked to respond to the following prompt: “What is (are) your main reason(s) for not using active learning in the classroom? (Select all that apply.).” Students were asked to respond to the following prompt, “What do you feel is (are) the main reason(s) that physiology faculty do not use active learning in the classroom? (Select all that apply.).”