The present study explored the effects of lecture fluency on students’ metacognitive awareness and regulation. Participants watched one of two short videos of an instructor explaining a scientific concept. In the fluent video, the instructor stood upright, maintained eye contact, and spoke fluidly without notes. In the disfluent video, the instructor slumped, looked away, and spoke haltingly wi...

The present study explored the effects of lecture fluency on students' metacognitive awareness and regulation. Participants watched one of two short videos of an instructor explaining a scientific concept. In the fluent video, the instructor stood upright, maintained eye contact, and spoke fluidly without notes. In the disfluent video, the instructor slumped, looked away, and spoke haltingly wi...

background in early 2012, national health insurance scheme (nhis) members in ashanti region were allowed to choose their own primary healthcare providers. this paper investigates the factors that enrolees in the ashanti region considered in choosing preferred primary healthcare providers (ppps) and direction of association of such factors with the choice of ppp.   methods using a cross-sectiona...

At its June,1996 meeting, Senate approved a new Instructor and Course Evaluation form (see Exhibit 1) for university-wide use beginning in the 1996-97 academic year. The distinctive features of the new teaching evaluation form include numerical ratings of a broad range of teacher and course characteristics, written comments from students on instructor and course, assessment of student character...

Peer review is an effective and useful method for improving students’ learning through review by student peers. Peer review has been used in classes for several decades. To ensure the success of peer review, research challenges such as the quality of peer review must be addressed. It is challenging to identify how good the reviewer is. We develop a prediction model to assess students’ reviewing...

Factors affecting students’ grades in principles of microeconomics and macroeconomics students are analyzed from the data collected in two public universities. Results indicate that gender, number of hours worked, SAT scores, number of missed classes, recommending the course to a friend, instructors, being a junior, number of economics courses taken, course, and interest in the course, were sig...

Students' judgments of their own learning are often misled by perceptions of fluency-the ease with which information is presented during learning. Lectures represent important learning experiences that contain variations in fluency, but have not been extensively studied. In the current study, students watched a 22-min videotaped lecture that was delivered by the same instructor in either a flue...