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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"teacher immediacy"”.
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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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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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Using "clickers" in the classroom to increase the level of student interaction
… engagement, student motivation, perceived teacher immediacy, course liking, and students' overall evaluation of the clickers. The findings and implications of this study are discussed.
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An Experimental Study of Teachers' Verbal and Nonverbal Immediacy, Student Motivation, and Cognitive Learning in Video Instruction
… a direct test of recall to provide data about teacher immediacy and student cognitive learning. Four hypotheses and a research question addressed two research problems: first, how verbal and nonverbal immediacy function together and/or separately to enhance learning; and second, how immediacy …
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Teaching and learning pedagogies to enhance practice in Higher Education: a practitioner’s perspective
… peer review found that, knowing and developing teacher immediacy plays a part in teacher development and can help create better connections with students. Although different each of the articles presents examples which others might find useful in enhancing practice. The second research objective …