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Download full textBoatman, Angela – Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness, 2019
Under a hybrid emporium instructional model, students primarily learn content and skills at their own pace through a computer-based platform; during class time, faculty serve more as tutors facilitating individual learning rather than as traditional lecturers. This study evaluates the adoption of this technology-centered instructional model in…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Remedial Mathematics, Two Year Colleges
Sullivan, Charles L. – Community College Social Science Quarterly, 1975
A proponent of the lecture method describes his conversion to "packaged" instruction--courses based on autoinstructional modules. (DC)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Conventional Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Lecture Method
Handleman, Chester – Community College Social Science Quarterly, 1976
Reports on a study which shows that, at the community college level, the lecture method is still the most valuable single teaching technique. (DC)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Conventional Instruction, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Lecture Method
PACKARD, RALPH E. – 1967
IN FALL 1964, PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA'S GENERAL COLLEGE WERE ASSIGNED TO GROUPS FOR 2-DAY ORIENTATION SESSIONS, IN WHICH THEY WERE INTRODUCED TO GENERAL ASPECTS OF THE UNIVERSITY, COMPLETED A TEST BATTERY, PARTICIPATED IN A "COLLEGE MEETING", AND REGISTERED FOR CLASSES. AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP RECEIVED THE…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Experimental Programs, Lecture Method, Orientation
Peer reviewedCline, Michael R.; Michael, Elaine – Community/Junior College Research Quarterly, 1978
Results of a study comparing Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) and lecture approaches using 301 community college students indicate that students in a PSI class do not perform better than students using a traditional lecture method, although PSI students scored higher on material learned early in the course. (MB)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Conventional Instruction, Independent Study, Individualized Instruction
Ramsden, Patricia A. – 1980
Observing that the lecture/discussion instructional technique resulted in high failure rates among students taking technical composition, an instructor at Madisonville Community College (Kentucky) implemented a new course system designed to provide individualized instruction. The system called for two fifty-minute lectures per week attended by all…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Community Colleges, Conventional Instruction
Ciaburri, Dino F., Sr. – 1975
Two methods of teaching drama as a literary form in an Introduction to Literature course were compared. Eighty-seven first-year students, 28 males and 59 females, were non-randomly assigned to four classes, two of which were taught in the traditional lecture-discussion manner while the remaining two utilized a method combining lecture-discussion…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction
Hinrichsen, Keith A.; Schaumburg, Gary F. – 1975
In fall 1970 several sections of a one-semester required U.S. history course (History 27: American History and Constitution) at Cerritos College (California) were combined into a joint lecture-discussion (JL) for 200 or more students. The opportunities for providing two lecturers stressing their topical specialties in group discussions seemed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Constitutional History, Conventional Instruction, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Belzer, Thomas J. – 1976
A study was conducted to test and compare the effects of a group-paced, multimedia, non-lecture method and a traditional lecture method of instruction in General Biology, and to determine if the type of evaluation used influenced a student's chances of successfully completing the course. Subjects were 308 students enrolling in General Biology…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, College Science, Community Colleges
Ostrowski, Michael V. – 1977
A study was conducted to ascertain whether the use of behavioral objectives in the conduct of a child psychology course would be more effective as an instructional delivery system than the traditional lecture-centered, note-taking approach. An experimental group received instruction in child psychology by means of the behavioral objectives…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Child Psychology, Community Colleges
COREY, GERALD F. – 1967
IN A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF CERTAIN VARIABLES ON THE OUTCOMES OF A COURSE IN INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY, PRETESTS AND POSTTESTS WERE ADMINISTERED TO 180 STUDENTS IN FOUR PSYCHOLOGY CLASSES AND TO 50 OTHERS. VARIABLES WERE CLASS SIZE, INSTRUCTOR, AND LECTURE VS. DISCUSSION METHOD, AND THE TESTS WERE MEASURES OF CHANGES IN STUDENTS' SELF-CONCEPT,…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Techniques, Conventional Instruction, Course Evaluation
