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Cowan, John – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2020
This article traces and critically analyses a personal journey in search of effective ways to promote exemplary questioning on the part of students. The article is in many ways a polemic rather than a scientific study, which emerges as much from the 1970s and the writings of Carl Rogers as from the second decade of the twenty-first century with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Instructional Innovation, Outcomes of Education
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Fullam, Jordan P. – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2017
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the potential for instructional video to build capacity in culturally responsive teaching, and outline an approach developed at NYU's Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools (Metro Center) for using inquiry-based, teacher-led teams to study, develop and film culturally…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Video Technology, Culturally Relevant Education, Capacity Building
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Plush, Sally E.; Kehrwald, Benjamin A. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2014
Despite the perceived advantages of student centred learning (SCL) in higher education, novice teaching academics' attempts to implement such approaches may be thwarted by a lack of experience with teaching in general and with SCL in particular, difficulties locating suitable practical advice on SCL, and the demands of early career academic…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Beginning Teachers, College Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Larson, L. R.; Lovelace, M. D. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2013
Classroom questions represent a potentially powerful tool for interacting with students and stimulating critical thinking. However, the efficacy of the question-and-answer approach to teaching is influenced by many factors, such as the type and cognitive level of questions asked as well as students' response time. To examine these factors and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Lecture Method, College Science, Questioning Techniques
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Pedrosa-de-Jesus, Maria Helena; da Silva Lopes, Betina – Research Papers in Education, 2011
This paper focuses on the relationship between preferential teaching approach (PTA) and the concept of teachers' questioning practices (TQP), as part of a large-scale three-year project aimed at developing the scholarship of teaching and learning at one Portuguese university. In order to contribute to understandings of how teachers' questioning is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learning Processes, Lecture Method, Student Attitudes
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Joyner, Michael J.; Charkoudian, Nisha; Curry, Timothy B.; Eisenach, John H.; Wehrwein, Erica A. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2011
In this article, we review how we interact with medical students in our efforts to teach blood pressure regulation and systemic cardiovascular control along with related elements of respiratory and exercise physiology. Rather than provide a detailed lecture with key facts, we attempted to outline our approach to teaching integrative cardiovascular…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Exercise Physiology, Teaching Methods
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Toy, Banu Yucel; Ok, Ahmet – Qualitative Report, 2012
Qualitative inquiry has gained importance in the evaluation of educational settings because it provides in-depth information, shedding light on context, situations, or processes. In this study, a qualitative inquiry was undertaken in order to evaluate a pedagogical course from the prospective teachers' points of view. In this case study, data were…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Focus Groups, Interviews, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Glass, Arnold Lewis – Educational Psychology, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the distributed presentation of different versions of a question would produce better performance on a new version of the question than distributed presentation of the same version of the question. A total of 48 four question sets of five alternative multiple-choice questions were presented…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Inferences, Multiple Choice Tests, Questioning Techniques
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Cardellichio, Thomas; Field, Wendy – Educational Leadership, 1997
Teaching strategies that overcome the brain's natural tendency to limit information can open students' minds to new ideas and creative mental habits. Seven strategies to provoke divergent thinking and deepen understanding are hypothetical thinking, reversal, application of different symbol systems, analogy, viewpoint analysis, completion, and web…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Divergent Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
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Hawkins, Jacqueline – Behavioral Disorders, 1988
This study sought to determine the effects of an instructional pause procedure on the verb identification performance of eight 8th- and 9th-grade students with severe behavior disorders. Seven of the students showed improvements of 14 percent to 29 percent, and significant generalization to student-generated written work was also demonstrated.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Generalization, Grammar
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Brooking, Dolo – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 1995
Ways in which violating traditional expectations about teaching helps change, shape, and focus student ability to extract meaning from works of art are discussed. Alternative teaching modes include use of inquiry methods rather than lectures, in-class reading of the artwork as text instead of assigned readings about the artwork, and group…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Classroom Communication
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Martyn, Margie A. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2005
As offerings of online courses, programs, and degrees continue to increase, universities are grappling for ways to assess and assure quality. The quality and quantity of interaction between faculty and students and among students constitutes a significant component of the definition of quality for any course, whether online or face-to-face. It…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Distance Education, Course Objectives, Online Courses