Investigating students' perceptions of what contributes to productive seminars and lectures, and staff predictions of students' perceptions: how well do staff know their students?

Maunder, R. and Harrop, A. (2003) Investigating students' perceptions of what contributes to productive seminars and lectures, and staff predictions of students' perceptions: how well do staff know their students? Journal of Further and Higher Education. 27(4), pp. 443-456. 1469-9486.

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Abstract:

Research has highlighted the importance of members of staff knowing their students and one way of achieving that is to ask them to predict students' responses to questions about the teaching process. To this end, student responses to open-ended questionnaires were content analysed to produce a questionnaire about factors that contribute to productive seminars and lectures. A total of 148 psychology students ranked the factors in order of importance and 13 members of academic staff predicted student responses. Results indicated that, despite some differences, members of staff were reasonably accurate in their predictions of student responses. It was also seen that student views were relatively consistent across student levels. The importance of the findings in relation to teaching practice are discussed

Subjects:

B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology > BF77 Study and teaching
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education

Creators:

Maunder, R. and Harrop, A.

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:

University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Health & Society > Psychology
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Group > Social and Cultural Research in Psychology Group
Faculties > Faculty of Health & Society > Psychology
Research Centres > Centre for Psychology and Social Sciences

Date:

2003

Date Type:

Publication