Lectures
Overview
- Influence: Lectures
- Domain: Teaching Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Instructional strategies
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a negative impact
- Influence Definition: The use of lectures, typically in higher education, to larger groups of students where the instructor is directly presenting or speaking uninterrupted to a more passive audience.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 3
- Number of studies: 273
- Number of students: 8,336
- Number of effects: 614
- Weighted mean effect size: -0.35
- Robustness index: 4
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dissertation | Cohn | USA | A meta-analysis of the effects of teaching innovations on achievement in college economics | 1985 | Innovative teaching vs. traditional lectures in economics | 48 | 0 | 48 | -0.20 |
| Conference paper | Freeman, Eddy, McDonough, Smith, Okoroafor, Jordt, & Wenderoth | USA | Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics | 2014 | Active learning vs Lecturing in college | 158 | 0 | 158 | -0.47 |
| Conference paper | Flaig, Heltemes, Lendermann, & Schneider | Germany | What's the use of lectures? A meta-analysis | 2019 | Lectures compared to other formats | 67 | 8,336 | 408 | -0.18 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 273 | 8,336 | 614 | -0.28 | |||||