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Wright, Anna M. – Communication Education, 2020
Teachers and their unions are often vilified for the perception that they are working against the best interest of students (Berliner & Glass, 2014). The narrative, it seems, is that teachers' unions only seek to protect bad teachers, and they fight for an unearned increase in pay for teachers. The National Education Association launched the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Unions, Educational History, Teaching Conditions
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Wright, Anna M.; Munz, Stevie M. – Communication Education, 2022
Cassandra Book called on scholars to examine how communication was taught in K-12 classrooms. For nearly 30 years, scholars have expressed concern regarding the decline of K-12 communication scholarship (Hunt et al., 2014), argued for the importance of communication in K-12 teacher certification (Rudick & Dannels, 2020; Wright, 2020), and most…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Change, Educational Research
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McKenna-Buchanan, Tim; Munz, Stevie; Wright, Anna; Williams, Jeremy – Basic Communication Course Annual, 2020
This study examines the basic communication course (BCC) as it relates to students' first academic year at a university. Specifically, we compared students completing both a first-year experience (FYE) course and BCC against students completing only an FYE course. Data was collected over two cohorts of students and after analytical procedures, we…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Introductory Courses, Communication Skills, School Holding Power
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Bratslavsky, Lauren; Wright, Anna; Kritselis, Alex; Luftig, David – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2019
This study begins with the assumption that visual and related literacies are essential frameworks to foster not only students' learning of visual communication principles, but also 21st century skills such as creative problem solving and self-directed learning. We focus on assignment directions as a particular instructional component. In contrast…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Critical Thinking, Computer Software, Student Attitudes
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Wright, Anna M.; Meyer, Kevin R. – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2017
The willingness and flexibility of university instructors to comply with and provide accommodations for students with disabilities is critical to academic success. The authors examine how communication between students needing accommodations and university instructors impacts instructor self-efficacy, or instructors' perception that they can meet…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), College Students, College Faculty, Self Efficacy
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Xue, Xiaorui; Xie, Shiwei; Mishra, Shitanshu; Wright, Anna M.; Biswas, Gautam; Levin, Daniel T. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2022
Recent advances in eye-tracking technology afford the possibility to collect rich data on attentional focus in a wide variety of settings outside the lab. However, apart from anecdotal reports, it is not clear how to maximize the validity of these data and prevent data loss from tracking failures. Particularly helpful in developing these…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Eye Movements, Comparative Analysis, Human Posture
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Stengel, Mitchell; Nolan, Leah; Donnick, David; Skym, Wesley; Wright, Anna M. – Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2019
Instructional discussion is a teaching method used in many classrooms across grade levels. In fact, the Common Core State Standards promote the use of instructional discussion in secondary classrooms (Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2018a). Students, however, are not always taught best practices for engaging in a discussion and may feel…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, High School Students, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods
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Wright, Anna; Rohman, Brian; Horn, Dakota; Meyer, Barbara; Simonds, Cheri J. – Basic Communication Course Annual, 2018
The implementation of the Common Core State Standards has brought about a renewed inspiration for exploring the role of communication in K-12 schools as they include a speaking and listening strand. Communication education in K-12 schools had been sparsely researched; however, a handful of scholars have made calls to increase the research and…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Communication Skills, Speech Skills
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Hunt, Stephen; Wright, Anna; Simonds, Cheri – Communication Education, 2014
In the late 1980s, noted communication scholar Cassandra Book laid out a comprehensive rationale and agenda for communication education research specifically focusing on pedagogical content knowledge for Communication courses in K-12 education. It has been 25 years since Book published her call for those in our discipline to pursue research…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Research Needs, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Educational Research
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Levin, Daniel T.; Salas, Jorge A.; Wright, Anna M.; Seiffert, Adrianne E.; Carter, Kelly E.; Little, Joshua W. – Cognitive Science, 2021
Although eye tracking has been used extensively to assess cognitions for static stimuli, recent research suggests that the link between gaze and cognition may be more tenuous for dynamic stimuli such as videos. Part of the difficulty in convincingly linking gaze with cognition is that in dynamic stimuli, gaze position is strongly influenced by…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Visual Stimuli, Video Technology, Cognitive Processes
Adamson, Peter; Micklewright, John; Wright, Anna – 2001
Noting that injuries are the leading cause of child death in all the world's more developed countries, this report is the second in a series of "Innocenti Report Cards" designed to monitor the performance of industrialized nations in meeting the needs of their children. The report focuses on child death by injury in the member countries…
Descriptors: Child Safety, Children, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations
Adamson, Peter; Micklewright, John; Wright, Anna – 2000
The tables of child poverty presented in this document are the most comprehensive estimates of child poverty across the industrialized world. Based on an analysis of the latest data from the Luxembourg Income Study of household surveys, the first figure shows the proportion of children living in poverty in 23 nations of the Organisation for…
Descriptors: Children, Developed Nations, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Development
Adamson, Peter; Brown, Giorgina; Micklewright, John; Wright, Anna – 2001
This third Innocenti Report Card presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey so far of teenage birth rates in the industrialized world. And it attempts at least a partial analysis of why some countries have teenage birth rates that are ten or even fifteen times higher than others. The starting point is a new league table of teenage birth…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Rate, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations
Adamson, Peter; Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke; Wright, Anna – UNICEF, 2003
This report represents the first ever attempt to draw a comparative picture of the physical abuse of children in the 27 richest nations of the world. UNICEF research estimates that almost 3,500 children under the age of 15 die from physical abuse and neglect every year in the industrialized world. The greatest risk is among younger children. A…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Death, Developed Nations, Child Neglect
Adamson, Peter; Brown, Giorgina; Micklewright, John; Waldman, Robert; Wright, Anna – 2002
This report compares the relative effectiveness of education systems across the developed world. Data come from the Programme for International Student Assessment, Trends in International Maths and Science Study, and the International Adult Literacy Survey. Overall, educational performance in some OECD countries is consistently better than others.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Developed Nations, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education