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Diversifying Curricula: How Are People of Colour Represented in Lecture Slide Images?
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Mi Young Ahn; Kathleen M. Quinlan; Barbara Adewumi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Diversifying higher education curricula has been called for as one way to reduce racial inequalities in higher education. This study makes an original contribution by focusing on images of people in lecture slides. We explored how people of colour versus white individuals were portrayed in images (n = 250) used in lecture slides in four first-year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Visual Aids
Learning through Inquiry: A Global Health Hackathon
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Kienzler, Hanna; Fontanesi, Carolyn – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
This article offers a description and critical evaluation of a novel method for inquiry-based learning (IBL) directed at undergraduate students: a Global Health Hackathon. The hackathon was piloted as part of an "Introduction to Global Health" undergraduate course in order to enable students to gain "and" create knowledge about…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education
Teacher-Student Discourse in Active Learning Lectures: Case Studies from Undergraduate Physics
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Wood, Anna K.; Galloway, Ross K.; Sinclair, Christine; Hardy, Judy – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
In this paper we develop knowledge of the discourse that takes place between teacher and students in two large undergraduate classes which use a flipped, active learning approach. In flipped classes students encounter the content through pre-class resources, freeing up class time for more active engagement with the material. This results in…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Physics
Verbal and Behavioral Cues: Creating an Autonomy-Supportive Classroom
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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
An Exploratory Investigation Examining the Cues that Students Use to Form Initial Impressions and Expectancies of Lecturers
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Birch, Phil David John; Batten, John; Manley, Andrew John; Smith, Matthew Jeffery – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
The aim of this study was to examine the informational cues that students perceive to be influential when developing initial impressions and expectancies of a lecturer. Undergraduate university students (n = 452) were required to rate the extent to which 30 informational cues (e.g. gender, qualifications) influence their initial perceptions of a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cues, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence
Effects of Teacher Clarity and Student Anxiety on Student Outcomes
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Rodger, Susan; Murray, Harry G.; Cummings, Anne L. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
A laboratory experiment was carried out with 120 undergraduate students to examine a possible aptitude-treatment interaction between teacher clarity and student test anxiety in relation to two outcome measures, namely student achievement and student motivation, with student intelligence statistically controlled. Students completed measures of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Motivation, Interaction