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Smith, Holly – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
The author, a programme leader for a Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PGCLTHE), hears a complaint from her colleagues that undergraduate students require "spoon-feeding". Accepting structuralism's argument that language does things, not just describe them, the author examines "spoon-feeding" in more depth.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Independent Study, Figurative Language, Teaching Experience
Kurth, Ruth J. – Educational Technology, 1987
Describes a study designed to determine whether the use of computer word processing would improve both the amount and quality of revision done by high school student writers. The effects of word processing on composition length and revision, and students' attitudes toward writing and word processing are discussed. (47 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Expository Writing, High Schools
Larson, Mary Ellen; Freivalds, Dace – 1985
This study on the role of instruction in encouraging the successful performance of the first-time online catalog user examined three relationships to evaluate the effects of an instructional program: the comparative effectiveness of four instructional methods in orienting users to the online catalog; the influence of an instruction program on user…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Students, Higher Education, Intermode Differences
Kowalski, Robert – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1987
This discussion of teaching methods in higher education in Great Britain focuses on lectures as the dominant method and explores ways to change to more student-centered methods of instruction. A study is described that used interviews and questionnaires to determine teacher and student views on lecture versus discussion formats. (LRW)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Rawitsch, Don – Computing Teacher, 1988
Discussion of the use of computerized databases in classroom instruction focuses on problem solving skills, student attitudes toward computers, and learning processes. A study of eighth graders is described that tested hypotheses involving the comparative analysis of data, and its implications for curriculum development and instructional methods…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development, Databases