Test Your Teaching Knowledge

Take this quick quiz to test your knowledge about teaching. Just click on "True" or "False" to see how up-to-date you are about the latest research in the fields of teaching, learning and presenting.

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1. Lecture is the fastest way of delivering a large amount of technical content.

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2. PowerPoint™ slides should be handed out at the end of a lecture. If handed out at the beginning, they distract both the learners and the presenter.

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3. PowerPoint™ slides and handouts should not contain exactly the same information.

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4. On average, the retention rate of content delivered in a lecture after 20 minutes is less than 40%.

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5. A PowerPoint™ slide should contain a maximum of 16 words (not including the title of the slide).

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6. Designing PowerPoint™ slides is a good first step when designing a lecture or presentation.

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7. Interactive or active learning always takes longer than traditional lecture-only teaching methods.

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8. Students/participants who experience active learning methods in the classroom perform, on average, two letter grades higher than students who experience lecture-only teaching methods.

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9. If the subject is boring, the presentation will almost always be boring.

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10. Being nervous as a presenter/lecturer has no correlation with your effectiveness as a presenter/lecturer.

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