With the Technicians.
The article focuses on the problems related to higher education. A major problem with which institutions of higher education are confronted is how to provide adequate instruction for the increasing number of students. The demand for qualified instructors is increasing; yet graduate schools are not t...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Higher Education Vol. 28; no. 5; pp. 275 - 281 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May1957
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on the problems related to higher education. A major problem with which institutions of higher education are confronted is how to provide adequate instruction for the increasing number of students. The demand for qualified instructors is increasing; yet graduate schools are not training a sufficient number to permit staffing at the required advanced degree levels now maintained by most institutions of higher learning. To handle adequately the problem of increased enrollment, college and university administrators are faced with the implementation of one of several possible policies. One of these is increasing student-teacher ratios and thereby caring for the enrollment increase, a policy which means either large classroom enrollments and the resulting predominant use of lecture techniques or increasing the student contact hours per instructor. An attempt was made to evaluate objectively some measured changes in college students who completed a beginning course in American Government. The two experimental variables operating in this situation were size of class and lecture versus discussion method of presentation. The attitude of the students toward the felt difficulty and interest value of the course were measured through the use of a modification of a Standardized attitude scale. |
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