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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Thompson, Blair; Mazer, Joseph P. – Communication Education, 2012
Parent-teacher communication represents a primary form of parental support, a phenomenon meriting significant attention given the connections between support and academic achievement (Thompson, 2008b). A series of studies advance the Parental Academic Support Scale (PASS) to assess the frequency, importance, and modes parents use to communicate…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis, Parent Teacher Cooperation
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Martin, Laura; Mottet, Timothy P. – Communication Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to show how instructor use of nonverbal immediacy behaviors influence Hispanic students' affective learning in ninth-grade writing conferences, regardless of the level of feedback sensitivity provided. According to Kluger and DeNisi's (1996) feedback intervention theory, when feedback is direct and targeted on the…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Freshmen, Grade 9, Writing Instruction
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Huang, Jingzi; Normandia, Bruce; Greer, Sandra – Communication Education, 2005
Using a functional linguistic theoretical and analytical framework, this study examines talk in a secondary mathematics class. Viewing communication as one of the key processes in building understanding, the study focuses on the different knowledge structures constructed and expressed by the teacher and the students in classroom discourse. Results…
Descriptors: Teachers, Classroom Communication