The objectives of this project were to: evaluate the impact of demographic descriptors (gender, class rank and final grade) on student's self perceived level of engagement in classroom activities; measure the impact of varying teaching styles on a student's likelihood of correctly answering a knowledge based question and: assessing the…

This study is performed by conducting a survey analysis to investigate students' attitudes and preferences towards learning English at Kuwait University in non-English major ESL students. The sample size will be roughly 21-22% of a total of 4950 college level English Language learners at Kuwait University where specific English courses are part of…

This paper illuminates a period of change in the lives of a group of 20 vocational lecturers as they find themselves challenged by both their own and others' categorisation of what and who they are. Such conflicting perspectives are made even starker by their management's introduction of technological innovation into the lecturers' traditional…

Neelu Sinha, Laila Khreisat, and Kiron Sharma describe how learner-interface interaction promotes active learning in computer science education. In a pilot study using technology that combines DyKnow software with a hardware platform of pen-enabled HP Tablet notebook computers, Sinha, Khreisat, and Sharma created dynamic learning environments by…

The effective organization and presentation of lecture material is described. Because the average lecture takes 40-50 minutes, it needs to be planned and structured in advance, since the lecturer's instinctive ordering of points may not be the best way for students to receive them. The material should be organized first for the course as a whole…

Will a combination of lecture plus teaching demonstrations produce better learning than when equivalent information is presented through lecture alone? The present field experiment directly addressed this question. (Author)

Author reviewed his feelings about a teacher who was a model of critical dissent and who brought his own unusual stamp of analysis to American literature. (RK)

Article evaluated a leading aesthete, critic, teacher, and scholar who refused to submit to the canons of his age. (Author/RK)

A presentation on how visuals can be integrated into university lectures. (HB)

A study and replication tested whether memory aptitudes interacted with note-taking, paying attention, or responding to test-like events during lecture instruction. Regression analyses were accomplished by means of the single predictor-single criterion case of the modified Johnson-Neyman statistical technique. A disordinal interaction between…

The Department of Museum Education of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the largest in the United States; its education program is divided into two parts: for children and for adults. Among adult programs carried out regularly are free weekly public talks in the presence of an art work, lectures and discussion programs for private groups,…

In the summer of 1970, a study was undertaken at Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon, in an attempt to explore the effectiveness of certain organizational patterns in teaching a large class at the undergraduate level. This document presents the final report of the study, which is organized as follows: Chapter 1 presents a review of related…

Contrary to much published opinion, little evidence was found of decrement in the performance of students in a University lecture. Decrement was measured by the percentage of "ideal" notes recorded by students in the course of an expository lecture. (Editor)