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Gelinas, Katharine A.; Ovid, Dax; Amaya-Mejia, Wilmer; Ayala, Rafael; Baek, Hanna E.; Gasmin, Eric; Hissen, Karina; Johnson, Amanda; Kossa, Emily; Levesque, Lauren; Lutz, Kurt R.; Lyons, Amichai S.; Mata, Alan F.; Mitchell, Casey G.; Paggeot, Lisa; Pastor-Infantas, Maria José; Patel, Cheryl; Prestol-Casillas, Susan; Chen, Kevin Xu; Tanner, Kimberly D. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Instructor Talk--noncontent and nonlogistical language that is focused on shaping the classroom learning environment--is a recently defined variable that may play an important role in how undergraduates experience courses. Previous research characterized Instructor Talk used by faculty teaching in biology lecture classrooms. However, graduate…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, Biology
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Allsop, Jared; Young, Sarah J.; Nelson, Erik J.; Piatt, Jennifer; Knapp, Doug – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The last 35 years have shown a greater interest among higher education professionals to adapt the principles of active learning within the classroom. Active learning, an instructional approach that allows students the opportunity to participate in the process of learning, requires them to do something more than just passively receive instruction.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students, Lecture Method
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Moorleghen, Dylan M.; Oli, Naresh; Crowe, Alison J.; Liepkalns, Justine S.; Self, Casey J.; Doherty, Jennifer H. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2019
Cell phones have long been known as a potential distraction from attention intensive activities such as studying and driving. Many, however, are developing the cell phone as a powerful tool to augment some of these same activities. Audience response systems (ARSs) are a type of teaching tool that allows educators to poll audience members in real…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Audience Response Systems, Student Behavior
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Shernoff, David J.; Sannella, Alexander J.; Wall, Lina Sanchez; Schorr, Roberta Y.; Bressler, Denise; Sinha, Suparna – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of students' seating location in a large, lecture-style university course on student engagement, attention, classroom learning experience, and course performance. Participants (N = 407) were students in two cohorts of an undergraduate financial accounting course at a large university in the…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Proximity, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement
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Molino, Alessandra – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2018
This paper deals with the use of metadiscourse by Italian university lecturers who teach through the medium of English (EMI, English-Medium Instruction). The objective is to verify whether, irrespective of possible shortcomings in their mastery of the language, lecturers demonstrate sensitivity to the situational demands of the EMI classroom,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, English (Second Language), Metalinguistics
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Stone, Gerard – Accounting Education, 2014
Gerard Stone was asked to present the evening lecture in a first-year undergraduate accounting subject. The aim of the subject matter was to provide students with an understanding of fundamental accounting issues and concepts. The subject coordinator advised Stone that, from past experience, most students who attend the evening lecture would be…
Descriptors: Accounting, Undergraduate Students, Cognitive Style, Student Employment
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Shin, Youhyun; Park, Junghyuk; Lee, Sang-goo – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
Blended learning has steadily gained in popularity at the higher levels of education. This marks a change in pedagogical approaches from one-directional instruction to an interactive and technology-aided class. However, to manage fluent in-class activities and proper data analysis, real-time and fine-grained data collection activities are still…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Data Collection, Blended Learning, Feedback (Response)
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Clark, Renee M.; Kaw, Autar; Besterfield-Sacre, Mary – Advances in Engineering Education, 2016
Blended, flipped, and semi-flipped instructional approaches were used in various sections of a numerical methods course for undergraduate mechanical engineers. During the spring of 2014, a blended approach was used; in the summer of 2014, a combination of blended and flipped instruction was used to deliver a semi-flipped course; and in the fall of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students, Blended Learning, Educational Technology
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Young-Jones, Adena; Cara, Kelly Copeland; Levesque-Bristol, Chantal – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
Teaching practices can create a range of autonomy-supportive or controlling learning environments. Research shows that autonomy-supportive techniques are more conducive to positive learning outcomes than controlling techniques. This study focused on simple verbal and behavioral cues that any teacher could use to create a positive learning…
Descriptors: Cues, Teaching Methods, Classroom Techniques, Verbal Communication
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Witecki, Gwendolyn; Nonnecke, Blair – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2015
Universities have experienced increases in technology ownership and usage amongst students entering undergraduate programs. Almost all students report owning a mobile phone and many students view laptops and tablets as educational tools, though they also report using them for nonacademic activities during lectures. We explored the relationship…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Handheld Devices, Laptop Computers, Learner Engagement
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Dosseville, Fabrice; Laborde, Sylvain; Scelles, Nicolas – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
We investigated the influence of music during learning on the academic performance of undergraduate students, and more particularly the influence of affects induced by music. Altogether 249 students were involved in the study, divided into a control group and an experimental group. Both groups attended the same videotaped lecture, with the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Classical Music, Lecture Method, Classroom Environment
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Auerbach, Arthur H. – PS: Political Science and Politics, 2012
The traditional format for teaching courses to undergraduate students has long been that of lecture when professors speak and students listen. However, as times have evolved so too have the pedagogical methods in the classroom. In teaching a course on diversity and discrimination in the society, this instructor opted to combine several teaching…
Descriptors: Documentaries, Undergraduate Students, Lecture Method, Learner Engagement
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Blood, Erika – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2012
The effects of student response system (SRS) use during lecture-style instruction on short-term, intermediate, and long-term retention of facts was investigated in an undergraduate teacher preparation course. Participants were undergraduate students enrolled in a special education initial certification program. Student performance on quizzes and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Preservice Teacher Education, Classroom Environment, Audience Response
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Kraushaar, James M.; Novak, David C. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2010
This paper examines undergraduate student use of laptop computers during a lecture-style class that includes substantial problem-solving activities and graphic-based content. The study includes both a self-reported use component collected from student surveys as well as a monitored use component collected via activity monitoring…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Lecture Method, Time on Task, Memory