Timeline for What is the point of a lecture when you have a textbook?
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| Sep 3, 2015 at 14:32 | comment | added | user1482 | This is a possible reasonable justification for lecturing. However, I think it would apply mainly to the minority of subjects where retention of information is the main task. There are subjects that have a lot of this, e.g., anatomy or a foreign language, but I don't think it applies at all to most college-level subjects, where the challenges are intellectual. Also, lecturing tends to be a very poor way to reinforce retention of information, because it's passive. People retain information much better when they talk about it themselves, use it to do something, debate it, etc. | |
| Sep 3, 2015 at 14:29 | comment | added | user1482 | @TomA.Vibeto: You linked to a WP article on social proof, with a subsection titled "multiple source effect." It doesn't support your claim and doesn't have anything to do with education. | |
| Sep 3, 2015 at 4:26 | comment | added | user30980 | Then shouldn't it be easy to find one to cite for your answer? Do those studies address review of different material using different mediums (such as your claim of lecture as a review of textbook?) | |
| Sep 3, 2015 at 4:24 | comment | added | Anonymous Physicist | @CreationEdge there are many published experiments addressing review. | |
| Sep 3, 2015 at 4:16 | comment | added | emptyother | Getting the same info from two different sources is more effective even when wording is the same: Multiple source effect. | |
| Sep 3, 2015 at 2:44 | comment | added | ff524 | Repetition increases retention. So then is reading the book twice just as good as reading the book and attending a lecture? | |
| Sep 3, 2015 at 1:13 | comment | added | user30980 | This sounds like a maxim. Do you have scholarly support for these statements? | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 21:30 | history | answered | Anonymous Physicist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |