Humor as an instructional defibrillator evidence-based techniques in teaching and assessment - Berk, Ronald A. (Stylus, 2002)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index
Creating humor to hook your students -- The active ingredients in humor and laughter -- Lights, camera, active learning! -- www.hilariouscourse.yeahright -- Assessment is like a box of chocolates ... -- Do-it-yourself test construction -- Detecting flaws in this old test -- Injecting jest into your test
Publisher's description: Humor can be used as a systematic teaching or assessment tool in your classroom and course Web site. It can shock students to attention and bring deadly, boring course content to life. Since some students have the attention span of goat cheese, we need to find creative online and offline techniques to hook them, engage their emotions, and focus their minds and eyeballs on learning. This book offers numerous techniques on how to effectively use humor in lectures and in-class activities, printed materials, course Web sites and course tests and exams. These techniques can convert any course into an adult version of Sesame Street