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Thiele, Doug – Inquiry, 2013
This author discovered that his most powerful tool in the classroom was not to lecture, but to stop speaking at all. The effect of the resulting silence was even more positive than he could have imagined.
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Malikow, Max – College Student Journal, 2007
The purpose of this study was to quantify the irritating behaviors of professors as experienced and reported by 232 Le Moyne College students. In this study, "irritating behavior" was understood as "actions that vex, annoy, bother, pester, frustrate, or provoke anger." The survey used in this study was developed by Larry M. Ludewig, Ph.D.,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Faculty, College Students, Evaluation Methods
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Lindauer, David L. – Journal of Economic Education, 1990
Describes team-taught courses in which the lectures of each team member are critiqued by other team members. Stresses that the result is a deeper, more critical analysis of each team member's material and of the interrelationship of their presentations. (DB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Economics Education, Higher Education
Campbell, Cheri Ellis – 1992
An ethnographic study examined instructor uses of control, immediacy, and affinity-seeking behaviors in a large college lecture class. A class of 140 college sophomores was observed for 10 weeks, in an attempt to understand in a situational and non-quantitative manner, what instructor behaviors motivate students toward cognitive and affective…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, College Sophomores