Lecturing is a common instructional format but poor lecturing skills can detract from students' learning experiences and outcomes. As lecturing is essentially a form of public communication, training in public speaking may improve lecture quality. Twelve university lecturers in Malaysia participated in a six-week public speaking skills training…

The purpose of this paper is to examine critically the research to determine the lecture method's strengths, weaknesses, and uses; and to explore possible ways of improving it by altering the lecture itself and by combining it with other modes of instruction. (Author/SJL)

Explains procedures and statistical results of a study comparing the effectiveness of programed instruction and the lecture method in teaching bibliographic search skills to undergraduates. Results indicate the programed approach is a viable method, which can be used as a satisfactory alternative to routine introductory lectures. (CWM)

An experiment compared three methods of instruction in an introductory course in psychology. The first method utilized groups of three students and required that all three students meet the criterion on each unit of material in the course before being allowed to continue on to other units. This system also required that students do all remediation…

Results of a microlevel study of the problems associated with student evaluation of teacher lecture performance indicated that student ratings of lectures are valuable feedback regarding teacher presentation but should be interpreted with caution as a measure of teaching effect on student learning. (SB)