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Crump, Charla A. – 1996
A study investigated the impact of teachers' use of immediacy behaviors in the college classroom. Behavior patterns of teachers often affect the behavior patterns of students. Teacher immediacy has been found to positively impact student cognitive, affective, and behavioral learning. Subjects, 70 students, enrolled in a communication course in a…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Communication Research, Higher Education
Marshall, Rodney – 2001
The rise of distance education classrooms in colleges and universities call for attention to the difference in communicative strategies need from a regular classroom. This study examined the concept of classroom communication apprehension (CCA) and the distance classroom. Ninety-two students from three different classes participated in this study.…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Apprehension, Communication Problems, Communication Research
Liao, Xiaofan – 2001
This research tries to determine effective intercultural classroom communication in the American higher education setting. Theories on classroom communication and intercultural communication (Uncertainty Reduction and Communication Accommodation) are used to build the framework. Subjects were four professors from three different academic…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Foreign Students, Higher Education
Byrd, Marquita L.; Williams, Hampton S. – 1981
These two related papers provide information on teacher attitudes toward black dialect use in the classroom and the measurement of such attitudes. The first paper reports on data from 176 administrators, counselors, teachers, and student teachers, revealing significant relationships between a teacher's definition of black dialect, attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Black Dialects, Classroom Communication, Communication Research
Corley, Donna J. – 1990
This study was conducted to address the question of how teacher written comments affected students from elementary school to college and to see if there were any differences within and between these groups. Twelve students, five male and seven female, from elementary, high school, and college (including some education majors), were the subjects of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Jenkins, Mercilee M. – 1983
The result of interviews with 77 students on California state university campuses, this paper explores a set of guidelines designed to facilitate communication between white faculty and minority students. The paper is divided into three sections, each dealing with one of the three areas of the guidelines: classroom interaction, advising, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Students, Communication Research, Guidelines
Alford, Nancy I. – 1991
A study investigated the effects of Interactive Television (ITV--a two-way television system of instruction which is a near replication of face-to-face classroom instruction) on learning. Sixty-seven rural, midwestern high school students who were taking classes via ITV were asked to complete a network analysis survey to identify the frequency of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Problems, Communication Research, Educational Research
Cocetti, Robert A. – 1985
The instrument designed by Patricia Kearney to measure communication style was chosen for a study of validity and reliability for three reasons: (1) the format of the instrument appeared to be more descriptive than evaluative, (2) its theoretical foundations encouraged the viewpoint that there is no one best communication style, and (3) it was…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Educational Theories, Factor Analysis
Belme, Jillian; Gray, Anne – 1980
A language evaluation instrument was devised to assess the accuracy of program implementation by teachers of four Australian preschool programs. The Teacher Language Instrument (TLI) categorizes each verbal episode of a teaching interchange for both mode and function. Five general mode categories of teacher language behavior--statements,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Mottet, Timothy P.; Patterson, Brian R. – 1996
A study sought to better understand the construct of teacher verbal effectiveness. Teacher verbal effectiveness was theoretically conceptualized using certain variables: verbal immediacy, language intensity, self-disclosure, communication and accommodation, and humor. A scale was developed and factor analysis yielded a unidimensional teacher…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Factor Analysis, Higher Education
Bell, Reginald L.; Quazi, Rahim – Online Submission, 2005
This study investigates whether significant differences exist across college undergraduates' grade levels, majors, gender, age levels, and income levels regarding their perceptions of visual aid usage in effective presentations. These differences were measured by subjecting 226 college undergraduates at a medium sized state university to a Visual…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Income, Age Differences, Student Characteristics
McDowell, Earl E.; McDowell, Carlene E. – 1990
This study focused on verbal and nonverbal immediacy behaviors of teachers, the relationship between immediacy variables and cognitive learning, as well as homophily, interpersonal solidarity, and student attentiveness at the senior-high school level. Subjects, 87 female and 73 male senior-high school students enrolled in interpersonal…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Classroom Communication, Cognitive Processes, Communication Research
Klinger-Vartabedian, Laurel; O'Flaherty, Kathleen – 1987
A study examined the extent to which perceived teacher status differentials influenced students' perceptions of teacher self-disclosure. This study involved a two-step procedure. Initially 30 students in a basic speech section were asked to recall examples of teacher self-disclosure that had occurred in classes in which they were enrolled. Then 13…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Students, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)