Do Large Lecture Halls Offer a Good Learning Environment? :: Teaching Education

Do Large Lecture Halls Offer a Good Learning surround Higher education comes in many forms, from small private colleges with superstar professor for every seven bookmans, to enormous universities which utilize teaching assistants for nigh all offered classes. The question I have as a student at Purdue, a university with around 35,000 students, is are large lecture halls with more than than two hundred students effective places for learning to occur? When there are that many pupils in a classroom, it is nearly impossible for an instructor to institute attendance. What is the motivation to attend class? Further, are students able to lowstand real(a) presented in a classroom when there are hundreds more wad in the classroom rustling papers, dropping pens, and whispering sarcastic comments around the lecture?In order to answer some of the above questions, I decided to study one of my largest lecture classes, Psychology 120 under Bob Melara. Class is held in an enormous l ecture hall, which seats over five hundred students. In order to learn the answers, I did look for for several weeks. I handed out questionnaires to other students at Purdue and notice Melaras class for about two weeks. In addition, I interviewed sari Strom, a student in the honors section of Psychology 120.The class of Melaras that I studied borders every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday between 430 and 520 PM. Class is held in the giant lecture hall on the first floor of the Lily Hall of Sciences on State Street. There are about five hundred students in this section, and the seats are dress up up like a stadium so that each form is higher than the one below it. In addition to the regular class, the honors students meet Wednesday from 530 to 620. As honors students, their responsibilities increase to planning and booster cable small groups for each of the four labs that all students are required to do during the semester. There are twenty honors students in this section.The s tudents in psychology discovered on the first day of class that the professor was a fine out of the ordinary. He walked into class and announced, Hello, my name is Robert Melara, but I am not overly fond of that name. What you refer to me as when I am not around is unimportant, but please address me only as Bob. His hair is sort of long and shaggy, and it appears as though he never combs it.