期刊名称：Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
印刷版ISSN：1527-9316
出版年度：2014
卷号：14
期号：5
页码：92-109
DOI：10.14434/josotlv14i5.13091
语种：English
出版社：Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET)
摘要：Getting students to prepare well for class is a common challenge faced by instructors all over the world. This study investigates the effects that two frequently used techniques to increase student preparation -- web postings and cold calling -- have on student outcomes. The study is based on two experiments and a qualitative study conducted in a statistics course that Masters in Public Policy (MPP) students take in their second semester at the Harvard Kennedy School. When used together, web postings and cold calling seem to increase the amount of time that students devote to reading before class by about an hour. This effect is both statistically and practically significant. However this increase in pre-class reading did not translate into increased learning (measured by average test scores on the midterm exam). Neither of the two techniques seems to be better than the other one at increasing reading time, test scores, and other student outcomes.
