The problem was to test the effectiveness of having students prepare and tape-record course lectures as a method of instruction. Seventy-one students in four separate psychology courses learned by the student-lecture method, and their course achievements were compared with those of controls of similar ability and training who learned with the same instructor using traditional methods. The results indicate that the student-lecture method offers considerable promise for improving the quality of student learning; however, the general applicability of the findings is restricted by the exploratory nature of the research.
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