The basic problem is that, although faculty members want their students to achieve higher kinds of learning, they continue to use a form of teaching that is not effective at promoting such learning. When interviewed, faculty often make reference to higher-level learning goals such as critical thinking. But they have traditionally relied heavily on lecturing as their main form of teaching. In one study of eighteen hundred faculty in five different types of institutions (including small private colleges), 73-83 percent chose lectures as their primary method of instruction (Blackburn and others, 1980). Although those percentages have probably dropped slightly in the last decade. my interactions with faculty Suggest that lecturing is still by far the dominant mode of teaching.