Use of Humor in university classes

Abstract or Introduction

Today’s teaching–learning process should be such that students should enjoy it. Today, syllabus, project work, tuitions, classes, dissertations, test tutorials and seminars impose lot of stress and tensions on the students. The purpose of this research paper was to study the effect of Sense of Humors in teaching Educational Research to M.Ed. students. The Lecture cum Sense of Humor Method and Lecture Method of teaching Educational Research were compared with each other. In all 70 M. Ed. students were selected for the study. Two levels of treatment were assigned randomly to the selected two groups. Jokes, cartoons, exaggerations, SMS etc. were introduced in experimental group. It was found that the Lecture cum Sense of Humor Method of Teaching Educational Research was found significantly effective than Lecture Method of Teaching Educational Research.