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Impact of Language Barriers and Students' Perceptions on Classroom Knowledge Sharing: A Comparative Case Study
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Paria Aria – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research studied the impact of language barriers and cultural experiences on students' perceptions at the University of North Texas. The population of this study were students who had taken a class with a non-native speaking instructor and those who hadn't. Following a mixed-method research approach, online surveys were distributed to the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes
Is Traditional Teaching Really All that Bad? A Within-Student Between-Subject Approach
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Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie C. – Economics of Education Review, 2011
Recent studies conclude that teachers are important for student learning but it remains uncertain what actually determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the relationship between lecture style teaching and student achievement. Based on matched student-teacher data for the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Lecture Method
Is Traditional Teaching Really All that Bad? A Within-Student Between-Subject Approach. Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series. PEPG 10-15
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Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie C. – Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University, 2010
Recent studies conclude that teachers are important for student learning but it remains uncertain what actually determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the relationship between lecture style teaching and student achievement. Based on matched student-teacher data for the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Lecture Method
Effects of Teacher Clarity and Student Anxiety on Student Outcomes
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Rodger, Susan; Murray, Harry G.; Cummings, Anne L. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
A laboratory experiment was carried out with 120 undergraduate students to examine a possible aptitude-treatment interaction between teacher clarity and student test anxiety in relation to two outcome measures, namely student achievement and student motivation, with student intelligence statistically controlled. Students completed measures of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Motivation, Interaction
Class Achievement and the Background and Behavior of Teachers
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Harrison, Marilyn – Elementary School Journal, 1976
Study of 24 second and third grade teachers to determine what characteristics and behaviors result in effective teaching. Results indicate that successful classroom performance is related to a highly autonomous attitude, preference for pragmatic activities, lecturing half the class time, having an abstract conceptual structure and the teacher…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Family Status
Another Look at Dr. Fox: Effect of Stated Purpose for Evaluation, Lecturer Expressiveness, and Density of Lecture Content on Student Ratings.
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Meier, Robert S.; Feldhusen, John F. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
The extent to which the student's perception of the purpose for evaluating an instructor, the instructor's expressiveness, and the density of content influences student ratings and achievement was investigated. Perceived purpose for evaluating the instructor had no effect on ratings. Scores were significantly higher for expressive than for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Course Evaluation, Higher Education, Information Utilization
Educational Seduction: The Effect of Instructor Expressiveness and Lecture Content on Student Ratings and Achievement.
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Perry, Raymond P.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
Previous "educational seduction" research suggested that teacher differences in expressiveness controlled the degree to which lecture content affected student ratings differently from student achievement. We attempted to replicate this Expressiveness x Content x Measures interaction in four simulated college classes. Student incentive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Class Size Influences on Student Performance, Attitudes, and Behavior: How Big Is Too Big?
Allen, Amy; Brannon, Patsy; Sims, Laura – MAHE Journal, 1999
Reviews literature on class size and its influence on student performance, attitudes, and behavior, highlighting a recent study of the effect of lecture-group size on the latter variables in an introductory college nutrition course. Student class-size preferences, attitudes about large-class characteristics, interest in the discipline, attitudes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, College Instruction, College Students