Understanding Instructor Immediacy,Credibility, and Facework Strategies Through a Qualitative Analysis of Written Instructor Feedback     

Elizabeth E. Gardner  Lindsey B. Anderson  Andrew D. Wolvin 《Qualitative Research Reports in Communication》2017,18(1):27-35

Written feedback is an important but often overlooked aspect of an instructor’s training and responsibilities, even though it is central to student learning. We analyzed 3,071 written instructor comments on a single assignment from 95 sections to understand how immediacy, credibility, and facework are reflected in written feedback. In taking a heuristic approach to data analysis, we found two overarching themes: fostering goodwill and using context-specific feedback. These overlapping themes demonstrated various strategies of instructor immediacy, credibility, and facework that negotiated the instructor–student relationship in conjunction with course content and policies. Examining these themes allowed us to identify strengths and weaknesses in methods of instructor feedback that would not have been visible using traditional quantitative methods of assessment and have practical implications for the administration of our course.  相似文献   

Sex Differences in the Perceived Appropriateness of Receiving Verbal Aggression     

Lindsey Susan Aloia  Denise Haunani Solomon 《Communication Research Reports》2017,34(1):1-10

This study predicted that (a) male recipients evaluate aggressive messages as more appropriate than female recipients, and (b) the magnitude of this difference varies as a function of contextual parameters. A total of 249 college-aged students responded to hypothetical scenarios to evaluate the influence of sex of the message recipient, sex of the message source, relationship type, and privacy level of the communication setting on recipients’ evaluations of appropriateness of aggressive communication. Results indicated that male recipients evaluate aggressive messages as more appropriate than female recipients, and this main effect was moderated by sex of the message source, relationship type, and privacy level. The discussion highlights the subjective experience of aggression for male and female recipients.  相似文献   

The Family Environment of “Quick-Witted” Persons: Birth Order,Family Communication Patterns,and Creative Facility     

Elizabeth Dorrance Hall  John O. Greene  Lindsey B. Anderson  LaReina Hingson  Elizabeth Gill  Brenda L. Berkelaar 《Communication Studies》2017,68(5):493-510

“Creative facility” refers to the ease, rapidity, or fluency with which people are able to formulate and produce novel, appropriate messages. Previous research indicates that people differ in this regard and that the phenomenon is linked to various personality and cognitive-style variables. This study aims to investigate whether aspects of family structure (i.e., birth order) and family processes (i.e., family communication patterns) are related to creative facility. Results indicated a significant interaction between birth order and family conversation orientation such that, for first-borns, higher levels of conversation orientation were associated with slower message production. No effects were observed for family conformity orientation. Among the implications of the findings is the need to assess birth order in studies of family communication patterns.  相似文献   

The origin and development of a concept: the information society     

S Crawford 《Bulletin of the Medical Library Association》1983,71(4):380-385

The constructs that underlie a discipline are complex and often times uncertain. It is argued that the ways in which we perceive and conceptualize are influenced by our habits of mind and our view of the world. This paper traces the concept of the "Information Society" from its inception in the discipline of economics through its development and its subsequent diffusion to the field of information science.  相似文献   

Centralization vs. decentralization in medical school libraries     

H Crawford 《Bulletin of the Medical Library Association》1966,54(3):199-205

Does the medical school library in the United States operate more commonly under the university library or the medical school administration? University-connected medical school libraries were asked to indicate (a) the source of their budgets, whether from the central library or the medical school, and (b) the responsibility for their acquisitions and cataloging. Returns received from sixtyeight of the seventy eligible institutions showed decentralization to be much the most common: 71 percent of the libraries are funded by their medical schools; 79 percent are responsible for their own acquisitions and processing. The factor most often associated with centralization of both budget and operation is public ownership. Decentralization is associated with service to one or two rather than three or more professional schools. Location of the medical school in a different city from the university is highly favorable to autonomy. Other factors associated with these trends are discussed.  相似文献   

The importance of measuring growth in response to intervention models: Testing a core assumption     

Schatschneider C  Wagner RK  Crawford EC 《Learning and individual differences》2008,18(3):308-315

A core assumption of response to instruction or intervention (RTI) models is the importance of measuring growth in achievement over time in response to effective instruction or intervention. Many RTI models actively monitor growth for identifying individuals who need different levels of intervention. A large-scale (N=23,438), two-year longitudinal study of first grade children was carried out to compare the predictive validity of measures of achievement status, growth in achievement, and their combination for predicting future reading achievement. The results indicate that under typical conditions, measures of growth do not make a contribution to prediction that is independent of measures of achievement status. These results question the validity of a core assumption of RTI models.  相似文献   

Computational auditory scene analysis: listening to several things at once     

Martin Cooke B.Sc.  Ph.D.  Guy J. Brown B.Sc.  Ph.D.  Malcolm Crawford B.Sc.  Phil Green B.Sc.  Ph.D. 《Endeavour》1993,17(4)

The problem of distinguishing particular sounds, such as conversation, against a background of irrelevant noise is a matter of common experience. Psychologists have studied it for some 40 years, but is is only comparatively recently that computer modelling of the phenomenon has been attempted. This article reviews progress made, possible practical applications, and prospects for the future.  相似文献   

Supporting prospective teachers' conceptions of modelling in science     

Barbara A. Crawford  Michael J. Cullin 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(11):1379-1401

This study investigated prospective secondary science teachers' understandings of and intentions to teach about scientific modelling in the context of a model‐based instructional module. Qualitative methods were used to explore the influence of instruction using dynamic computer modelling. Participants included 14 secondary science prospective teachers in the USA. Research questions included: (1) What do prospective teachers understand about models and modelling in science? (2) How do their understandings change, following building and testing dynamic computer models? and (3) What are prospective teachers' intentions to teach about scientific models? Scaffolds in the software, Model‐IT, enabled participants to easily build dynamic models. Findings related to the process, content, and epistemological aspects of modelling, including: (a) prospective teachers became more articulate with the language of modelling; and (b) the module enabled prospective teachers to think critically about aspects of modelling. Still, teachers did not appear to achieve full understanding of scientific modelling.  相似文献   

Distributive Justice and Higher Education Resource Allocation: Perceptions of Fairness     

Hope Bradley Hnat  Daniel Mahony  Shawn Fitzgerald  Fashaad Crawford 《Innovative Higher Education》2015,40(1):79-93

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EVANGELICAL RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN SOUTH AMERICA     

Wade Crawford Barclay∗ 《Religious education (Chicago, Ill.)》2013,108(9):908-916

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