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Direct linkQuinlan, Kathleen M. – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Lecturing is often touted as a means to inspire students' interest, despite evidence that most lectures fail to do so. This study examines triggers of students' situational interest during lectures. Students (N = 706) in 12 different individual one hour first year lectures in a UK university were surveyed at the end of the lecture. They described…
Descriptors: Student Interests, College Students, Lecture Method, Student Attitudes
Miller, Lindsay – Studies in Higher Education, 2007
This article explores how Hong Kong Chinese engineering students with low English language proficiency manage to cope with their lectures given in English. An ethnographic case study approach was used with multiple sources of data triangulated to provide a picture of the lecture event from both the students' and the lecturer's perspectives. One of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
Peer reviewedWillcoxson, Lesley – Studies in Higher Education, 1998
A study examined the relationship between the way 15 faculty members like to learn and the way they like to teach, and the reasons for their teaching strategies. It also compared teachers' and their students' perceptions of their teaching. Results suggest little enthusiasm for lecturing as a teaching/learning method, but few attempts by academics…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBooth, Alan – Studies in Higher Education, 1993
A survey of 40 British university students in their third year of history study investigated student motivation in studying history, the role of the teacher, characteristics of good and bad seminars, effectiveness of the lecture method, and perceptions of different student assessment methods. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Educational Change
Peer reviewedHusbands, Christopher T. – Studies in Higher Education, 1996
Results of an annual study of student opinions of courses at the London School of Economics and Political Science (England) show variations in level of satisfaction with a single teacher, even within the same course, according to teaching method. Predictors of these variations are examined, including teacher, course, and student characteristics.…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Course Organization, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedLiow, Susan Rickard; And Others – Studies in Higher Education, 1993
A study investigated perceptions of National University of Singapore faculty (n=18) and students (n=151) in psychology, building, and estate management of the importance of specific educational objectives and the effectiveness of teaching methods in meeting them. Results indicate discrepancies between faculty and student attitudes and some…
Descriptors: Architecture, College Faculty, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedGoldfinch, 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
