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Sprague, Jo – Communication Education, 1993
Argues that pedagogical research must be retrieved from the margins of the communication discipline. Sketches guidelines for a more theoretically sophisticated and engaging form of discipline-specific pedagogy. (SR)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Higher Education, Research Needs, Speech Communication

Hoffmann, Jan; Sprague, Jo – Communication Education, 1982
Survey results identified 52 treatment programs which use a variety of formats, treatment methods, and evaluation procedures. The majority of respondents favored more programs of this nature at the college and university level. Arguments opposing the proliferation of special treatment programs were also identified. (PD)
Descriptors: Fear, Higher Education, National Surveys, Speech Habits

Sprague, Jo – Communication Education, 2002
Reports briefly on observations revisiting the 50 years of the "Communication Education" journal. Attempts to capture the direction and momentum of the journal's "astounding progress." Offers a list of hopeful predictions about the next decades of "Communication Education" by blending in a more critical set of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Instructional Improvement
Sprague, Jo – 1971
A distinction among evaluation, measurement and reports of terminal behavior is presented. For the purposes of evaluation, any response to a speech performance provides useful feedback to the communicator. In addition to the teacher's evaluation of the performance against "established standards", it is argued that a teacher's subjective responses…
Descriptors: Accountability, Behavior Change, Course Objectives, Evaluation Methods