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Irwin, A.; Irvine, C.; Bekes, B.; Nordmann, E. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
Incivility has been reported as having an adverse impact on student learning, faculty staff retention and student commitment within Higher Education. As such this behaviour has the potential to reduce student achievement and could have a financial impact. The aim of this research was to examine the impact of teaching context (lecture versus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Faculty, Interpersonal Relationship
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David Besong Tataw – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
This study assessed perceived learning outcomes in a team-lecture hybrid (TLH) instructional design in six public affairs and health administration courses implemented in 2011 and 2012. A cross sectional and prospective survey design was implemented using descriptive statistics, regression analysis and qualitative analysis. Results show students…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods, Team Teaching
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Lynch, Rosealie P.; Pappas, Eric – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
This paper presents a model for teaching large classes that facilitates a "small class feel" to counteract the distance, anonymity, and formality that often characterize large lecture-style courses in higher education. One author (E. P.) has been teaching a 300-student general education critical thinking course for ten years, and the…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Teaching Methods, Class Size, Lecture Method
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Flosason, Thorhallur O.; McGee, Heather M.; Diener-Ludwig, Lori – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2015
Classroom response systems (also referred to as clickers) can enhance learning outcomes and are generally viewed favorably by students and instructors alike. The current study used an alternating treatments design to examine whether discussing questions in small groups before responding to clicker questions during lecture improved accurate…
Descriptors: Audience Response Systems, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices
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Westerholm, Kirsi; Räsänen, Anne – Research-publishing.net, 2015
The internationalisation of universities often means that the language of learning and teaching needs to be changed -- at present most commonly to English. Apart from English-speaking countries, then, most European universities offer their degree programmes in a language that is not the first language of either the students or the teachers. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies, Global Approach, Masters Programs
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Wildermuth, Susan M.; French, Tammy; Fredrick, Edward – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2013
This study explores alternative approaches for teaching general education courses burdened with serving extremely large enrollments. It compares the effectiveness of a self-contained course in which each course section is taught by one instructor to a large lecture/small lab format in which all course enrollees attend one large lecture section and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, General Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Small Group Instruction
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Alcaraz-Salarirche, Noelia; Gallardo-Gil, Monsalud; Herrera-Pastor, David; Servan-Nunez, Maria Jose – Educational Action Research, 2011
We describe and analyse the action research process carried out by us as teachers in a general didactics course in the University of Malaga (Spain). The course methodology combined lectures to the whole class and small-group work. We were in charge of guiding small-group work. In the small groups, students researched on an educational innovation…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Action Research, Educational Innovation, Diaries
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Sheridan, Jean; And Others – College Teaching, 1989
In order to encourage instructors interested in collaborative classroom approaches, the College of Continuing Education at the University of Rhode Island sponsored a series of workshops and informal discussions. A telephone survey of faculty was undertaken to learn the ways they were using collaborative approaches in their courses. (MLW)
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Faculty, College Instruction, Continuing Education
Davidovitch, Nitza; Soen, Dan – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2005
In many universities and colleges around the world, it is an accepted practice to supplement frontal lectures of courses with separate practice classes or tutorials. For this purpose lecturers may sometimes use the services of teaching-assistants to conduct the tutorials. Teaching-assistants conduct tutorials in many courses in Israel's academic…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Teaching Assistants, Foreign Countries, Teacher Surveys
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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
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Goldfinch, Judy – Studies in Higher Education, 1996
A study compared the effectiveness of two methods (medium-size class instruction and large lectures with tutorial sessions) for teaching mathematics and statistics to first-year business students. Students and teachers overwhelmingly preferred the medium-size class method, which produced higher exam scores but had no significant effect on…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Class Size, Classroom Environment, College Faculty