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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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Boyd, Josh; Morgan, Melanie; Ortiz, Anna Victoria; Anderson, Lindsey B. – Communication Teacher, 2014
Assessment is an increasingly important part of communication pedagogy, not just for periodic accreditation reviews but for ongoing justifications for resources and course design. This project relates the story of how another college at our university prompted us to prove that our Science Writing and Presentation course really delivered what it…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Undergraduate Students, Public Speaking, Content Area Writing
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Boyd, Josh; Boyd, Gina – Communication Teacher, 2014
An auction, though an economic tool, is essentially a performance dependent on communication (Smith, 1989). The auctioneer dictates the pace, asks for bids, and acknowledges responses; the enterprise is controlled by a voice (Boyce, 2001). Bidders must listen and respond strategically to the communication of the people around them. An auction…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Consumer Economics, Bids, Class Activities
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Boyd, Josh – Communication Teacher, 2010
Ideally, college classes are small. Kilgore and Cook (2007) observed that large class size can be an obstacle to good teaching. However, there is financial and human resource value in delivering quality course content in large lectures. Consequently, large lecture classes are a fundamental part of the undergraduate student experience at many…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Undergraduate Students, Class Size, Course Content