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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"instructional communication"”.
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Instructional communication in preservice education: Rapport, conflict, and classroom management
<p>This study examines communication as instructional classroom practice and considers its increased inclusion in teacher preparation programs. While widely recognized as an important aspect of most university degree programs, communication pedagogy is often overlooked in schools of education …
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Communication structures in computer-supported cooperative learning (CSCL) environments for adult learners in distance education
… the research question: What is the nature of the instructional communication process sustained by computer-supported cooperative learning (CSCL) environments for adult learners in constructivist distance education? The target audience was adult learners; the constructivist learning paradigm guided …
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Exploring the Relationship Between Immediacy Behaviors and Student Motivation in Engineering Classrooms: Immediacy as a Cause of Motivation
… of effective instructors. Although instructional communication has done extensive research on the impact of immediacy behaviors on students, there is little available research observing immediacy behaviors as predictors of motivation on engineering students. As a result, this study …
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Alternative Breaks: The impact of student-to-student connections in non-classroom service-learning experiences
… through two studies. In order to extend instructional communication scholarship on student-to-student connectedness, Study One examined the relationship of connectedness to other similar outcomes such as organizational assimilation, small group socialization, and social integration. Study …
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The social organization of knowledge in eleven South African primary schools
… is 'unlocked' or maximized through forms of instructional communication between teachers and with school managers. Knowledge is foregrounded as a critical resource to teachers and as the means by which the purpose of the school is achieved. To investigate how knowledge circulates, the study …
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What do you think? : applied research in class discussion communication.
The purposes of this study are to investigate non-credentialed English teachers' experiences facilitating class discussions and analyze the information communicated in extant discussion facilitation resources targeted towards non-credentialed English teachers. The study created themes from …
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Teacher Matters: Teacher Normative Influence and Student Persistence in College
This dissertation extends the work on teacher immediacy (TI) and student persistence by using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) (Ajzen, 1985) to account for variability in college student persistence. Students provided perceptions of their teachers’ immediacy behaviors using modified versions of …
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The effects of sex and context on student's interpretation of teachers' high immediacy messages
Teacher immediacy has been positively associated with many desirable academic outcomes, including quality student-teacher relationships, student participation in the classroom and in extra-class interaction, and increased student learning. Thus, scholars have consistently encouraged educators to …
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Instructor Response to Uncivil Behaviors in the Classroom: An Application of Politeness Theory
This study examines levels of politeness in real time instructor responses to classroom incivility behaviors. Student participants were randomly assigned to view a video of an instructor responding to either passive or active student incivility behaviors in various ways. The responses were based on …