Purpose: This paper aims to examine how students from foundation degrees (FDs) run at local further education colleges coped (academically and to a lesser extent psychologically) with the transition to a final year honours degree at a university. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is based on the experience of FD graduates who joined the…

In India, like in most other countries in the East, lecturing used to be the predominant method of classroom instruction. This practice was rooted in the cultural values that posit a teacher as one who is venerable, flawless and unquestionable. When students construct knowledge from active participation in a course, real learning and critical…

This study investigates the combined impact of a memory test and subsequent listening practice in enhancing student listening abilities in collegiate business administration courses. The article reviews relevant literature and describes an exploratory study that was undertaken to compare the effectiveness of this technique with traditional…

Relates a technique in which teachers can rate their effectiveness by the examination of students' lecture notes. Students are asked to record notes on a carbon of which the teacher is given the copy. Examination of these notes enables the instructor to ascertain communication problems which may be occurring. (CP)

The major objectives of this monograph are to familiarize the reader (teachers) with the elements of an effective lecture and to help them understand lecture forms and how to organize them effectively. In the first section, the ingredients of a lecture are considered with emphasis upon the lecturer's style of delivery and techniques for relating…

Focusing on public speaking as a major instructional tool for teachers, this paper contains suggestions for more effective lecturing. In the introduction, classroom communication is analyzed according to four moves: structuring, soliciting, responding, and reacting. The paper then discusses four problems in studying learning from meaningful verbal…

Lecturing may be considered necessary viewed from three perspectives: for inspiration, for demonstration of models, and for clarification. (Author/PG)

Lists some of the disadvantages associated with the didactic method of teaching science and suggests ways in which teachers can improve this method and stimulate student interest. (JR)

The students in an introductory college psychology course were given the option of attending live lectures (control group) or listening to audio-taped lectures (experimental group). Each experimental subject was issued a tape recorder, a set of lecture tapes, and a schedule of lecture topics as presented to the control group. Conducted in the fall…

This study investigated the effects of offering three instructional options (lecture, lecture-discussion, and independent study) to students in a large psychology lecture class. The purpose of this study was to determine whether students do better when given their preferred method of learning, and whether the different methodology affected…

In view of the well-known disadvantages of lecturing, and the practicability of teaching without them, why does lecturing remain the standard method in universities? To increase the chances of lectures being good, they should be fewer, and to offset their deficiencies they should be regarded as only one component of a combination of methods used…

Interesting teaching techniques that geography teachers at the college and university level can use in their lectures and in their seminars and tutorials are presented. (RM)

Reports on a study which shows that, at the community college level, the lecture method is still the most valuable single teaching technique. (DC)

The present investigation was undertaken in order to help resolve the issue of the relative effectiveness of two classroom instructional techniques. Specifically, this investigation compared the effectiveness of the lecture method with the crossword puzzle used as a teaching device, following the reasoning of Nachman and Opochinsky (1958).…