Large Classes Bibliography

Videos

BYU Faculty Center. Engaging Students in the Large Class. Available through CTE.
Suggests ways to maximize the student's engagement and interaction in a large class.

Carbone, Elisa. Teaching Large Classes: Tools & Strategies. Available through CTE.
Addresses the question: How can you personalize your teaching and make it more interactive when you have so many students.

Walvoord, Sanders, and Stanforth. Making Large Classes Interactive: A Faculty Development Video Program. Available through CTE.
Designed to help stimulate thinking among faculty about approaches to increasing interactivity in the classroom.

Books and Articles

Beall, Herbert, and Trimbur, John. "Writing in Chemistry: Keys to Student Underlife." College Teaching 41 (1993): 50-54.
Discusses using 5-minute writing in a large chemistry class.

Brooks, D.W. "Alternatives to Traditional Lecturing." Journal of Clinical Education, 21 (1984): 858-9.
Description of successful practices for a large chemistry course.

Carter, Duncan. "The Transformation of Instruction in Writing: Implications for Class Size." WPA: Writing Program Administration 16 (1993): 72-75.
The effect of large classes on WPAs' work.

Duppenthaler, Peter. "Suggestions for Large Classes." Guidelines 13 (1991): 64-73.
Two class activities for language classes.

Geske, Joel. "Overcoming the Drawbacks of the Large Lecture Class." College Teaching 40 (1992): 151-54.
Discussion of techniques developed to improve student participation and student evaluation in a large-group college course in advertising.

Gleason, Maryellen. "An Instructor Survival Kit: For Use with Large Classes." AAHE Bulletin, 39 (1986): 10-14.
Tips and ideas for large classes. Includes an annotated bibliography.

McKeachie, Wilber J. Teaching Tips: A Guidebook for the Beginning College Teacher. (8th ed.) Lexington, Mass: Heath, 1986.
Practical suggestions for teaching large classes.

Miller, Melinda M. "Electronic Conferencing in the Networked Classroom." College Teaching 39 (1991): 136-39.
Discussion of the use of electronic conferencing in a poetry class.

Monk, G. S. "Student Engagement and Teacher Power in Large Classes." In Bouton, C., and Garth, R.Y., eds., Learning in Groups, 7-12. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 14. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1983.
Strong on techniques for introducing student involvement.

Pebworth, Michael. "The Poster/POST-IT Activity: In the Discussion Section and Beyond." College Teaching 45 (1997): 7-9.
A brainstorming variation used with discussion sections of a large class.

Pulturak, R. W. "The Colloqution Module." Journal of College Science Teaching, 48 (1983): 65-73.
Describes a small-group method that incorporates reading and other activities.

Ramage, John D. and Bean, John C. "Teaching Writing in Large Classes: Seven Years Later at Montana State University." ADE Bulletin 97 (1990): 18-25.
Argues against imposing large classes on reluctant departments.

Silvia, Evelyn M, and Hom, Carole L. "Personalized Teaching in Large Classes." Primus 6 (1996): 325-26.
Discusses successful strategies for space use, classroom management, and collecting student feedback.

Weaver, R. L. "Effective Lecture Techniques: Alternative to Boredom." New Directions in Teaching 7 (1982): 31-39.
Straightforward description of large-class teaching techniques.

---. "The Small Group in Large Classes." Educational Forum, 48 (1983): 65-73.
Outlines five objectives for small-group discussions, and ways of achieving them.

Weimer, Maryellen. Teaching Large Classes Well. (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, no. 32). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1987.
A collection of articles from practitioners in the field about large classes.

---. "Participation in Large Classes." Teaching Professor 4 (1990): 3-4.
More tips for getting students to participate.