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Herbert Kalthoff; Fabian Koelsch – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2025
University examinations categorise students according to their individual achievements determined by teaching staff. This procedure serves the elicitation and certification of student knowledge and thus reproduces academic hierarchies. Drawing on empirical evidence from ethnographic fieldwork in Engineering and History departments, this article…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Evaluation, Testing, History Instruction
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Morris, Patricia; Ida, Aya Kimura; Migliaccio, Todd; Tsukada, Yusuke; Baker, Dylan – Teaching Sociology, 2020
Students often identify research methods classes as one of the most difficult and intimidating classes of their academic career. The objectives of this study were twofold. The first was to ascertain whether the use of group-centered, collaborative learning would improve student mastery of material compared to traditional, lecture-based classes.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Lecture Method, Instructional Effectiveness
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Seifert, Tami – Journal of Educators Online, 2019
To respond to needs arising from the field and institutional constrictions, various video-integrated teaching methods were offered to students in multiparticipant courses. Two hundred ninety-five students studying in two Sociology of Education courses agreed to participate in the research. One hundred sixty-two students participated in Course 1,…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Video Technology, Teaching Methods, College Students
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Tiemann, Kathleen A.; Badahdah, Abdallah M.; Pedersen, Daphne E. – Teaching Sociology, 2009
The sociological literature on teaching and learning includes a number of discussions devoted to the importance of multicultural education. Much of this literature encourages educators to revise the curriculum and shows how the experience of multicultural education can stimulate student's sociological imaginations. To this end, some scholars have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociology, Multicultural Education, Curriculum Development
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Kunkel, Karl R. – Teaching Sociology, 2004
"Teaching Sociology" recently published several articles dealing with the use of computer-assisted pedagogical techniques. Many authors assess the effectiveness of specific computer-assisted instruction (CAI) forms by examining either student performance or student course evaluation. Typically one group uses some form of CAI while the other does…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Sociology