Effective College Teaching: A Preliminary Causal Analysis

Abstract

THE IDEA for this study was stimulated by the current national interest in intellectual dishonesty on the part of the students in our American colleges. One of the writers believed that too little has been made of the intellectual lethargy characteristic of some professors in our colleges. This then led to an interest in what effective teaching in college is and what may be the causes which lead a full professor to be effective or ineffective in his teaching.