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MacArthur, Brenda L.; Villagran, Melinda M. – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2015
This study examines students' motives for communicating with their instructors when the instructor exhibits inappropriate or unprofessional online behavior. To understand the relationship between what we call instructors' digital expectancy violations and students' motives for communicating with instructors, students' levels of task, social, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Student Motivation, Computer Mediated Communication, Correlation
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Sohr-Preston, Sara L.; Boswell, Stefanie S.; McCaleb, Kayla; Robertson, Deanna – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2016
A sample of 230 undergraduate psychology students rated their expectations of a bogus professor (who was randomly designated a man or woman and "hot" versus "not hot") based on ratings and comments found on RateMyProfessors.com. Five professor qualities were derived using principal components analysis: dedication,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Undergraduate Students, Age
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Proyer, René T.; Wagner, Lisa – American Journal of Play, 2015
The authors elaborate on the role of playfulness as a preferred characteristic in potential long-term partners recently espoused by Garry Chick and others. They aim to replicate the findings of such research by studying a different culture (that of German-speaking countries) and to develop them further by taking into account the participants'…
Descriptors: Play, Foreign Countries, Individual Characteristics, Interpersonal Relationship
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Roberts, Simon; Reeves, Matthew; Ryrie, Angus – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
Recent evidence suggests that the majority of the adult population fails to achieve the recommended target of 30-minutes moderate intensity exercise, days a week. This includes university students who often have the time to engage in physical activity. The aim of this study was to determine exercise motives for a UK-based student population. The…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Exercise, Athletics, Gender Differences
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Wilson, Janie H.; Beyer, Denise; Monteiro, Heather – College Teaching, 2014
Student evaluations of teaching provide valued information about teaching effectiveness, and studies support the reliability and validity of such measures. However, research also illustrates potential moderation of student perceptions based on teacher gender, attractiveness, and even age, although the latter receives little research attention. In…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Age, Sex, Teacher Characteristics
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Edwards, Autumn; Edwards, Chad – Communication Education, 2013
The purpose of this experiment was to test the influence of mixed reviews appearing as computer-mediated word-of-mouth communication (WOM) on student perceptions of instructors (attractiveness and credibility) and attitudes toward learning course content (affective learning and state motivation). Using the heuristic-systematic processing model, it…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Teacher Characteristics, Credibility