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Direct linkBolkan, San; Griffin, Darrin J. – Communication Education, 2018
In this study, we investigated how various teaching behaviors influence student interest as a situational variable. Specifically, we studied how behaviors related to "catch" interest (i.e., ephemeral aspects of the learning environment such as instructor humor, nonverbal immediacy, intellectual stimulation) and "hold" interest…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Interests, Classroom Environment, Student Empowerment
Bolkan, San; Goodboy, Alan K. – Communication Education, 2015
Instructors' use of humor is generally a positive influence on student outcomes. However, examinations of humor have found that specific types of messages may not impact, or may even reverse, its positive effect. Instructional humor processing theory (IHPT) has been used to explain how humor impacts student learning. The current study sought to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Humor, Educational Theories, Predictor Variables
