Humor through cartoons is an interesting way to engage students in learning course content. The purpose of this study was to document the process of graduate student-made cartoons that portrayed content about principles of designing gifted education programs. Seventeen graduate students enrolled in an introductory gifted education course…

This study replicated and extended a preliminary typology of appropriate and inappropriate teacher humor and advanced three explanations for differences in interpretations of teacher humor. Students were more likely to view teacher humor as inappropriate when it was perceived as offensive and when it demeaned students as a group or individually.…

This literature review summarizes humor theory as an instructional strategy and provides examples of humor research. Discusses relationships between humor, affect, motivation, information processing, and learner characteristics. Provides six guidelines for incorporating humor in computer-based instruction (CBI) and proposes a research agenda for…