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Explaining Students' Appraisal of Lectures and Student-Activating Teaching: Perceived Context and Student Characteristics
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Struyven, Katrien; Dochy, Filip; Janssens, Steven – Interactive Learning Environments, 2012
During lectures, some students are continuously focused and attentive, whereas others tend to be bored, jittery, or inattentive. The same might happen when students are given student-activating assignments. Some students simply love one type of instruction, whereas others tend to resent it. Moreover, it is not the context itself, but the context…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Active Learning, Student Evaluation, Multiple Choice Tests
"Teach as You Preach": The Effects of Student-Centred versus Lecture-Based Teaching on Student Teachers' Approaches to Teaching
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Struyven, Katrien; Dochy, Filip; Janssens, Steven – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2010
This study investigates the effects of teaching and learning environments on student teachers' approaches to teaching and compares a lecture-based setting to a student-activating teaching environment, in which self-discovery learning by means of authentic tasks is central. Data collection (N = 852) was obtained by a pre-test/post-test design…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Lecture Method, Child Development, Teaching Methods
Students' Experiences with Contrasting Learning Environments: The Added Value of Students' Perceptions
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Struyven, Katrien; Dochy, Filip; Janssens, Steven; Gielen, Sarah – Learning Environments Research, 2008
This study investigated the effects of two contrasting learning environments on students' course experiences: a lecture-based setting to a student-activating teaching environment. In addition, the evaluative treatment involved five research conditions that went together with one of four assessment modes, namely, portfolio, case-based, peer…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Measures (Individuals), Lecture Method, Educational Environment
Students' Likes and Dislikes regarding Student-Activating and Lecture-Based Educational Settings: Consequences for Students' Perceptions of the Learning Environment, Student Learning and Performance
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Struyven, Katrien; Dochy, Filip; Janssens, Steven – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2008
This paper aims to investigate students' likes and dislikes of the teaching that they have experienced and its effects on students' perceptions of the learning environment, student learning and academic performance. The study compares a lecture-based setting to a student-activating learning/teaching environment, considering both instructional and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Environment, Lecture Method, Interest Research