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Download full textHackathorn, Jana; Garczynski, Amy M.; Blankmeyer, Katheryn; Tennial, Rachel D.; Solomon, Erin D. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
It has been argued that humor is beneficial in the classroom because it increases social bonding between instructor and student, salience of information, and ultimately recall and retention. The current study sought to add to the literature by empirically testing some assumptions about humor as a pedagogical tool. Specifically, we predicted that…
Descriptors: Humor, Learner Engagement, Attachment Behavior, Classroom Environment
Peer reviewedAdams, Richard C. – Physics Teacher, 1972
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Evaluation, Humor, Physics
