Two experiments used two 2 x 3 x 2 (instructors x test forms x class times) designs to compare three aspects of student performance (mean final examination scores, homogeneity of variance, and retake frequencies) on three test forms. The test items on the three forms were arranged in three ways: (1) forward--items paralleled the presentation of…

THE PURPOSES OF THE STUDY WERE TO COMPARE (1) CONVENTIONAL LECTURE, PROGRAM-DISCUSSION, AND PROGRAM-PROBLEM METHODS OF INSTRUCTION, (2) STUDENT PERFORMANCE WITH AND WITHOUT CONFIDENCE IN PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION, AND (3) ACHIEVEMENT ON THE BASIS OF TEST SCORES ON THE FIRST ONE-THIRD OF THE CONVENTIONAL COURSE. TWO EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED IN…

This paper examines the speech performance characteristic of the college lecturer. One of the most organized forms of speech performance, the lecture functions as a referential monologue and has a necessarily topical focus. Specifically dealt with are the ways in which lecturers introduce new topics, link together topical utterances, and close out…

Eleven potential relationships exist among simultaneously presented messages in multi-image lectures. These are redundancy, cross-modality redundancy, generic/specific relationships, comparison/contrast, interaction of variables, parallel messages, analogical messages, temporal relationships, spatial relationships, generic concepts, and ideograms.…

The purpose of this study was to determine if any significant differences existed in the achievement scores of students who complete a business report writing course in an individualized instruction method as compared with those students who complete the same course in a traditional teacher-lecture method. Five hypotheses were analyzed for…

The document offers a brief evaluation of the effectiveness of the lecture method of teaching and a detailed outline of the characteristics that make it effective. While some of the effectiveness lies in the lecturer's ability, subject discussed, and circumstances, there are certain guidelines and procedures which are generally followed by…

This study compared the effectiveness of lecture presentations through the use of Educational Telephone Network (ETN) and face-to-face situations of conventional district inservice training meetings for county Extension agents and explored implications for the selection of inservice training media. County staff units were randomly assigned to ETN,…

The main objective of the training research phase of the maintenance management study was to develop and test training methods suitable for highway maintenance supervisors. Supervisors were trained by one of five different methods (lecture, group discussion, programed instruction, programed workshops, audiovisual instruction). The report documents…

The further education of librarians has not been given sufficient consideration in the literature on the profession. Since a librarian is among other things, a custodian of books and therefore of knowledge and culture, he should keep himself in touch with the best and most up-to-date ways and means of making this knowledge available. In addition,…

This document discusses the author's solution to students' demands for smaller, more individual classes vs. administrative pressure, forced by enrollment and financial demands, for larger classes. In the 1970 fall semester at Cypress College (California) 150 students participated in an experiment in which an economics 1A class size was increased…

Perhaps more than ever before, college teaching is being studied and evaluated. This paper describes the development of a simple descriptive instrument used to focus observers' classifications and ratings of college teachers' instructional behaviors as recorded on video tape. The need for such an instrument is reviewed, the methodology for testing…

The feasibility of using programed instruction materials for a session of a Management Training Conference conducted for first-level supervisory personnel of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation was studied. A programing format utilizing a series of gated segments, each preceded by a test item, was designed to accommodate the variability among…

Based on factor analyses of pooled within group correlation matrices derived from relevance judgments about a set of teaching behavior items, a four-factor oblique structure of faculty attitude toward effective teaching was obtained. Analyses failed to reveal differences among academic disciplines and professional ranks. Implications are…

The study reported here concludes that the laboratory does help students in their geology lecture course work even though the content emphases are different. (MDR)

Examination of college teacher lecture styles, using the Batchelder-Keane variation of the Flanders Interaction Analysis System, found significant differences in lecture characteristics of college teachers, primarily among the subject fields of science, social sciences, and humanities. (MJB)