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Examples and the Facilitation of Student Learning: Should Instructors Provide Examples or Should Students Generate Their Own?
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Bolkan, San; Goodboy, Alan K. – Communication Education, 2019
This study examined learning differences for students who were given instructor-provided examples during a lesson compared with student-generated examples. In an experiment, 348 students were exposed to an online lesson about fear appeals and were randomly assigned to either a condition where (a) examples of key concepts were provided by the…
Descriptors: Models, Concept Formation, Individual Differences, Student Role
Mental Health Stigma and Communication and Their Intersections with Education. Wicked Problems Forum: Mental Health Stigma
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Smith, Rachel A.; Applegate, Amanda – Communication Education, 2018
Roughly one in four Americans will experience a mental health issue during his or her lifetime (National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2016). The consequences of mental disorders can be profound: people with mental disorders experience higher rates of disability and mortality. People with depression and schizophrenia have a…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Mental Disorders, Social Bias, Negative Attitudes
Instructor Misbehaviors Impede Students' Cognitive Learning: Testing the Causal Assumption
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Goodboy, Alan K.; Bolkan, San; Baker, James P. – Communication Education, 2018
Guided by assumptions from the cognitive-affective theory of learning with media, we conducted a teaching experiment to corroborate past correlational research that suggested instructor misbehaviors, in the form of antagonism toward students, impede students' cognitive learning. Participants were 472 undergraduate students who were randomly…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Undergraduate Students, Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories
A Review of Humor in Educational Settings: Four Decades of Research
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Banas, John A.; Dunbar, Norah; Rodriguez, Dariela; Liu, Shr-Jie – Communication Education, 2011
The primary goal of this project is to provide a summary of extant research regarding humor in the classroom, with an emphasis on identifying and explaining inconsistencies in research findings and offering new directions for future studies in this area. First, the definitions, functions, and main theories of humor are reviewed. Next, the paper…
Descriptors: Humor, Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Classroom Research
Integrating Nonnatives as Teachers: Patterns and Perceptions of Compliance-Gaining Strategies
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Liu, Min; Sellnow, Deanna D.; Venette, Steven – Communication Education, 2006
This study extends the teacher effectiveness, teacher power, and teacher socialization literature by examining compliance-gaining strategies used by new Chinese and new American teaching associates. The two groups of new teachers did not differ significantly overall with regard to the frequency of behavior alteration technique (BAT) use. Moreover,…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Socialization, Intercultural Communication, Effect Size