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Direct linkKerssen-Griep, Jeff; Witt, Paul L. – Communication Education, 2015
Mentoring is a trusting, developmental supervisory relationship whose success largely depends on participants' interpersonal abilities. Feedback interventions with mentees commonly present interactional challenges to maintaining that relationship, yet are integral to any teaching-learning context. In this study we examined whether and how two…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Mentors, Intervention, Teaching Methods
Morreale, Sherwyn; Staley, Constance; Stavrositu, Carmen; Krakowiak, Maja – Communication Education, 2015
The purpose of this study is to better understand new college students' attitudes toward and perceptions of communication media and technology and themselves as communicators in the context of communication competence. Building on the results of a previous qualitative study, the researchers developed a survey focused on communication…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, College Freshmen, Information Technology
Choi, Charles W.; Honeycutt, James M.; Bodie, Graham D. – Communication Education, 2015
Imagined interactions (IIs) constitute a type of social cognition that can reduce fear of communication. Through the mental preparation enabled by IIs, an individual can reduce disfluencies and mitigate the anxiety that arises from a speech. Study 1 indicated that rehearsal influences the reduction of silent pauses but not vocalized pauses. In…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Interpersonal Communication, Imagination, Interaction
Teacher Communication Concerns Revisited: Calling into Question the Gnawing Pull towards Equilibrium
Dannels, Deanna P. – Communication Education, 2015
This study revisits the long-standing teacher communication concerns framework originating over three decades ago. Analysis of 10 years of contemporary GTA teacher communication concerns reveals a typology of 10 concerns, which taken together construct teaching as a process of negotiating relationships, managing identities, and focusing attention.…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students, Socialization, Interpersonal Communication
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…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Humor, Educational Theories, Predictor Variables
Frisby, Brandi N.; Goodboy, Alan K.; Buckner, Marjorie M. – Communication Education, 2015
Extending research on instructional dissent beyond student reports, this study examined the potential for students' expressed dissent to have deleterious effects on faculty members. Instructors (N = 113) completed surveys about students' instructional dissent regarding their classes and reported their own burnout, commitment,…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, Student Behavior, Dissent, Teacher Burnout
