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THE EFFECT OF LECTURE TIME ON LEARNING
Author(s) -
HOLLOWAY P. J.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1966.tb01877.x
Subject(s) - psychology , morning , attendance , preference , mathematics education , set (abstract data type) , humanities , developmental psychology , pedagogy , art , medicine , statistics , mathematics , political science , computer science , programming language , law
S ummary . Dental students were lectured alternately at the beginning and end of the day throughout a lecture series at which summary hand‐outs were available. They were tested by a multiple‐choice examination paper, and the results analysed statistically. There was no reliable evidence that the students' performance was better after attendance at the morning than at the afternoon lectures. However, they recorded significantly more correct responses to questions set on the lectures they attended than on those they missed. As a group they showed no preference for the late rather than early lectures, although some students favoured the former while others favoured the latter.