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Shore, Bruce M.; And Others – Higher Education, 1990
Two surveys of faculty researchers contradict the belief that university research and teaching have a direct relationship with each other. The most common form of instruction was lecture, a method that does not directly involve the learner in the process of producing new knowledge. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Higher Education, Lecture Method
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Ellis, Lee; Mathis, Dan – Higher Education, 1985
In a controlled experiment, students in two sections of introductory sociology were exposed either to conventional classroom lectures or to identical lectures broadcast live in an adjacent room on a television monitor. Class attendance and learning under the two modes were statistically equivalent. The findings confirm those of past studies.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research
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Brown, G. A.; Daines, J. M. – Higher Education, 1981
A random sample of 93 lecturers responded to a questionnaire based on research on explaining. Findings indicate that their views on the learnability of various features of explaining are not related to their years of experience of lecturing, and there are significant differences between arts-based and science lecturers. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
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Smith, J. T.; Rockett, B. W. – Higher Education, 1983
A random sample of 268 lectures given in 55 agricultural colleges in the United Kingdom were analyzed by the lecturers for the sources of new information used in them. Fourteen sources were identified and are analyzed for patterns of use in six subject areas. (MSE)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Course Content, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Saroyan, Alenoush; Snell, Linda S. – Higher Education, 1997
Three types of higher education lecturing styles are described and their differences are discussed in the context of current conceptions of teaching and pedagogical principles. The three lectures are subsequently characterized as content-driven, context-driven, and pedagogy-driven. Evaluation data suggest that the more pedagogically oriented the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Comparative Analysis
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Husbands, Christopher T. – Higher Education, 1997
London School of Economics and Political Science (England) course evaluations were used to examine whether teachers assessed differently across courses have distinguishing characteristics, and whether courses assessed especially discrepantly for one teacher have distinguishing features. Results show course-level characteristics (class size, number…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis