The purpose of this study was to ascertain if an online computer tutorial on diabetes mellitus, supplemented to traditional classroom lecture, is an effective tool in the education of nutrition students. Students completing a web-based tutorial as a supplement to classroom lecture displayed greater improvement in pre- vs. post-test scores compared…

This paper examines the effectiveness of three methods of teaching interpersonal communication (lecturing, using interpersonal exercises, and using exercises that require the application of interpersonal skills) and the relationships among students' test scores on examination questions dealing with knowledge, comprehension, and application skills.…

Project CIVTEC was conducted through the Columbia, South Carolina State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education in cooperation with the National Science Foundation and has developed an individualized instructional approach, based on mastery learning, for eleven core curriculum courses in Civil Engineering Technology. The basic format for…

IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT SIMULATION AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUE WOULD PRODUCE RESULTS SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER THAN THOSE OBTAINED IN CLASS GROUPINGS WHICH EMPLOYED ONLY LECTURE-DISCUSSION METHODS. FOUR HUNDRED AND FIVE 12TH-GRADE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT STUDENTS IN 2 HIGH SCHOOLS IN KANSAS WERE THE SUBJECTS. FIVE CLASSES, 225 STUDENTS, CONSTITUTED THE…

To test the feasibility of teaching a methods course totally or partially by telelecture, a control group of 15 was taught by traditional lecture-discussion, an experimental group of 15 was taught with 50 percent traditional and 50 percent telelecture, and another experimental group of 25 was taught only by telelecture. Each group consisted of…

Research studied the effectiveness of class lecture as compared to telelecture, and the association between amount learned and the personal and situational factors of age, level of education, time of day, and attitude. Pretests and posttests collected level of knowledge and personal information from 71 women during a short course on Money…

Results of an experiment conducted to compare two teaching strategies showed somewhat higher test scores for college students taught by the lecture method, while students taught by the discussion method evinced higher interest and attendance. The experiment consisted of two sections of a night class in Social Psychology which were taught…

To assess student feeling toward large group instruction, an attitude survey of 17 questions was administered before and after participation in such a class. Tremendous attitude changes from negative to positive were attributed largely to effective media use in the class. (LBH)

A study to determine the usefulness of a board game in training and sensitizing senior dental students toward handicapped children showed that neither the board game nor a standard small-group lecture affected student attitudes or confidence. (MSE)

A study of the effect of incorporating medical ethics into the medical curriculum and comparing two teaching methods (lecture and case studies) found higher moral reasoning after instruction, but neither method was significantly more effective. (Author/MSE)

Seventeen medical students in a problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum reported that on average they spent twice as much time preparing for step 1 of the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination as did 52 students in the traditional lecture-based curriculum at the same school. Different learning approaches were also employed. (SLD)

Verbal-retelling abilities for social-studies lectures were examined in 20 adolescent boys with language-learning disabilities and 29 with normal language abilities. Lectures had either a comparison expository discourse structure or a causation discourse structure. Results indicated that the comparison discourse structure facilitated more…

Evaluations by students of the University of Mississippi were compared to the evaluations of students at Dokuz Eylul University related to specific lectures on communication skills. The students of the University of Mississippi were Native Speakers of English (NSE) while the students at Dokuz Eylul University spoke English as a Foreign Language…

This study analyzes the performance and attitudes of technical writing students in PowerPoint-enhanced and in non-PowerPoint lectures. Four classes of upper-level undergraduates (n = 84) at a mid-sized, Southern university taking a one-semester technical writing course were surveyed at the beginning and end of the course about their perceptions of…

Designed to compare instructional strategies and effectiveness of medical school faculty using both in-person and two-way television delivery systems, this paper presents classroom observation data obtained from presentations by seven faculty members of the College of Medicine at Texas A&M University over a 9-month period. It includes a…