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Peer reviewedEllis, Lee; Mathis, Dan – Higher Education, 1985
In a controlled experiment, students in two sections of introductory sociology were exposed either to conventional classroom lectures or to identical lectures broadcast live in an adjacent room on a television monitor. Class attendance and learning under the two modes were statistically equivalent. The findings confirm those of past studies.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research
Peer reviewedBrown, G. A.; Daines, J. M. – Higher Education, 1981
A random sample of 93 lecturers responded to a questionnaire based on research on explaining. Findings indicate that their views on the learnability of various features of explaining are not related to their years of experience of lecturing, and there are significant differences between arts-based and science lecturers. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSaroyan, Alenoush; Snell, Linda S. – Higher Education, 1997
Three types of higher education lecturing styles are described and their differences are discussed in the context of current conceptions of teaching and pedagogical principles. The three lectures are subsequently characterized as content-driven, context-driven, and pedagogy-driven. Evaluation data suggest that the more pedagogically oriented the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedHambleton, Ian R.; Foster, William H.; Richardson, John T. E. – Higher Education, 1998
College mathematics and computer science students in two math courses (conventional lecture-based, and a multimedia variant of the Personalized System of Instruction) completed the Approaches to Studying Inventory. Students in the latter course obtained higher scores on meaning orientation. The effect was significant in computer-science students,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, College Mathematics, College Students
Peer reviewedHusbands, 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
