Communication organizational orientations in an instructional setting

This study sought to determine if the organizational orientations of upward mobility, ambivalence, and indifference applied to students in the instructional setting. The McCroskey, Richmond, Johnson, and Smith (2004) Organizational Orientation Measure was adapted to a classroom setting to measure student orientations, and then the relationships between student orientations and student perceptions of teacher credibility, teacher nonverbal immediacy, student trait motivation, student state motivation, student beliefs and attitudes toward college, student affective learning, and student cognitive learning. Results indicate upward mobility had significant positive correlations with the dependent variables except cognitive learning while ambivalent and indifferent orientations had significant negative correlations with the dependent variables except cognitive learning.

Name thesis:degree_name

MA

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication Studies

Year dc:date.available

2006

Author dc:creator

• Tibbles, David

Contributors dc:contributor

• Virginia P. Richmond.
• James C. McCroskey
• Keith Weber

• Communication
• Educational psychology
• Personality psychology

Identifier

https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/792

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:researchrepository.wvu.edu:etd-1795