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Download full textKreps, Gary L. – 1981
Communication is a key tool that health care professionals must use to identify the salient variables causing health complaints, to create strategies for health care treatments, and to elicit cooperation from health care colleagues and clients in the delivery of health care services. Communication specialists can help by applying speech…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Continuing Education, Health Personnel, Interpersonal Relationship
Sachs, Jacqueline – 1981
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which preschoolers have acquired some of the rules governing politeness when they interrupt conversations. (An interruption was defined as an utterance by a child to two or more people who were already engaged in conversation, and where the topic of the child utterance was unrelated to the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research
Ting-Toomey, Stella – 1982
A study analyzed the verbal interactions of married couples in high, moderate, and low marital satisfaction groups to determine whether (1) the interaction processes within the three satisfaction groups differed and (2) there were different communication patterns that characterized the interaction processes of the groups. Subjects were 34 young…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Shapiro, Edythe R. – 1979
Kindergarten teachers' directives uttered during the first month of school were compared with those uttered three months later. It was expected that changes associated with different classroom organizational structures, with increasing child sophistication, and with size of group being addressed, would influence the type and clarity of teacher…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Class Activities, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research
Pellegrini, A. D. – 1981
The intent of this study was to examine the development of three aspects of preschoolers' private speech: coefficients of egocentricism, the extent to which speech regulates actions, and the syntactic and semantic structures of individual utterances. Forty-one randomly chosen preschoolers (26 females, 15 males) were placed in three age groups (3,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Egocentrism, Language Acquisition
Pondy, Louis R.; Huff, Anne S. – 1981
A case study of curricular change compares two leading models of organizational change. One model stresses the uncertainty and disorder of major changes and views them as dramatic events. The other model sees major organizational shifts as the result of ordinary day-to-day processes and emphasizes their routine nature. For this study, the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Computer Oriented Programs, Content Analysis
Nicassio, Frank J. – 1981
In order to establish an initial data source for elementary level home-based intervention programs, 18 dyads of second-graders and their parents were divided into three mutually exclusive achievement groups and observed while completing an instructional tool introduced into the home by the childs' school. Parent/child interactions were stimulated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Language, Elementary Education, Grade 2
Shapiro, Edythe R. – 1981
A longitudinal investigation of teacher-pupil directive interactions in kindergartens was designed to study stability, change, and structures underlying classroom directive exchanges. Three kindergarten classes were observed four times during a school year. Teacher directives were classified as to type and clarity, while concomitants of 748…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Communication Research, Kindergarten Children, Longitudinal Studies
Cegala, Donald J. – 1978
E. Husserl's concept of intentionality provides a conceptual perspective of interpersonal communication that suggests a notion of face-to-face communication called "interaction involvement." Structured along dimensions of awareness and responsiveness, interaction involvement explains interpersonal communication as a transactional relationship…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communicative Competence (Languages), Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Stacks, Don W.; Burgoon, Judee K. – 1979
A model of conversational distance violations that claims that these violations mediate communication outcomes such as source credibility, source attraction, and learning was examined in a study involving 136 undergraduate students. The students were tested in small group settings using eight confederates, four rated highly and four lowly in…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Credibility
Merchant, Jerrold J. – 1978
Noting that an increasing number of rape victims who seek alternatives to police procedures do so because of the insensitive behavior of the investigating police officer, this paper provides a model of interpersonal communication skills that will enable police officers to better relate to and support the victims of rape. The areas covered in the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Feminism, Information Theory, Interpersonal Relationship
Freeman, Robert N. – 1980
Teacher attitude toward the integration of mildy handicapped students in regular classrooms was studied with 32 successful and 32 unsuccessful students (in grades 3 through 6). Verbal interactions and physical distance were recorded and examined to determine the relationship between students and teachers. Findings indicated that teachers interact…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Distance, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Sanders, Wayne – 1980
The possibility that judges' expectancy effects may adversely affect the results of jury trials is a problem that needs careful theoretical analysis and innovative methods of resolution. Traditional efforts by the legal community to counteract the threat of verbal/nonverbal bias by judges include the "Code of Judicial Conduct," curative…
Descriptors: Bias, Change Strategies, Communication Problems, Communication Research
Belme, Jillian; Gray, Anne – 1980
This paper presents an analysis of teachers' classroom language as measured by the Teacher Language Instrument (TLI). Subjects were teachers in four programs of the Mt. Druitt Early Childhood Project for Year One level (6-year-old) children. The four programs were identified as "behaviorist,""cognitive,""competency,"…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Language Patterns
EACHUS, HERBERT T.; HAINES, DONALD B. – 1965
AN EXPERIMENT CARRIED OUT TO ASSESS THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO METHODS OF TRAINING UNITED STATES AIR FORCE MILITARY ADVISORS IN CROSS-CULTURAL SKILLS REQUIRED SUBJECTS TO PLAY THE ROLE OF AN AMERICAN AIR FORCE CAPTAIN WHO HAD TO INTERACT, IN SPECIFIED WAYS, WITH A FOREIGN COUNTERPART PLAYED BY AN ACTOR. A LIST OF 34 BEHAVIORS APPROPRIATE TO…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Feedback, Foreign Culture, Interaction Process Analysis
