Passing individual microphones discouraged some students from asking questions during telelectures¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · design r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 1972 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because 2 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Students felt that using passed-around microphones tended to discourage some students from asking questions. → Heiliger 1972

Evidence¶

Heiliger 1972¶

Heiliger, Edward M. (1972). Teaching Information Retrieval Using Telediscussion Techniques. Kent State Univ., Ohio. Center for Library Studies. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED058905

q2 · i? · design · r2

Observational and student-reaction evidence from the last six lectures, which used a Conference Telephone Set requiring individual microphones to be passed around the table; the article reports a "definite feeling" that microphone use discouraged questions.

"There was a definite feeling on the part of the students thatthe use of the microphone tended to discourage some students from asking questions."

Discussion¶

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