The purpose of this study was to determine whether Foeman and Nance's (1999) model of interracial... more The purpose of this study was to determine whether Foeman and Nance's (1999) model of interracial relationship development could be adapted into a generalizable interracial relationship typology and whether there would be distinct differences in the affective, cognitive, and behavioral dimensions of each stage. Long-table analysis of four focus group interviews confirmed differences among the four stages of Foeman and Nance's model. Further examination of focus group transcripts revealed differences between the affective, cognitive, and behavioral dimension of each stage, but few differences between the affective and cognitive dimensions across stages. Implications for the study of relationship development, limitations, and directions for future research are discussed. To Ted: Thank you for your guidance, ability to deal with my wordiness and overwriting, your incessant patience, and the pitchers you provided. Hope the piano holds up. This has been an experience I will never forget and one that I owe you for. To Keith and Scott: Your insights, comments, concerns, and guidance were invaluable. I appreciate everything you both provided. To My Wife: For putting up with long nights, reading and rereading my rough drafts (thanks for being an English teacher), and generally loving me throughout my many moods during work.
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ABSTRACT An experiment was conducted in an attempt to test the relationship between teacher lectu... more ABSTRACT An experiment was conducted in an attempt to test the relationship between teacher lecture material, student interest and cognitive learning. Interest was manipulated in two videotapes through character identification. Character identification is one of the attributes suggested by Anderson, Shirey, Wilson and Fielding (1987) that could serve to increase student interest. Analyses indicate that the group viewing the video with easily identifiable characters scored higher on recall tests of lecture material. Additionally, it appears as if this increase was also related to an increase in the competence and meaningfulness dimensions of student interest.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 17464090500535905, Jun 1, 2006
ABSTRACT Over the past few years, professors in the Department of Communication Studies at West V... more ABSTRACT Over the past few years, professors in the Department of Communication Studies at West Virginia University have worked to integrate the graduate research methods course with the communication theory course. The goal is to help the students learn how theory and research are related and to help professors deal with the time management issues involved with guiding student research. The following is a brief rationale and procedural outline explaining how the interchange between the two courses works. A discussion of the benefits and drawbacks associated with this type of pedagogical exercise concludes the piece.
... Schiefele, 1991; Schraw, et al, 1995; Schraw & Dennison, 1994; Tobias, 1994). Conversely,... more ... Schiefele, 1991; Schraw, et al, 1995; Schraw & Dennison, 1994; Tobias, 1994). Conversely, in the field of communication, Frymier, Shulman, and Houser (1994) produced a highly reli-able scale that measures a conceptually ambiguous construct called empowerment. ...
Two studies based in the autobiographical memory paradigm were conducted to extend knowledge of r... more Two studies based in the autobiographical memory paradigm were conducted to extend knowledge of recollections about school. In Study 1, undergraduates wrote 1 pleasant memory and 1 unpleasant memory about each of 4 grade levels. Memories from some categories decreased across grades, whereas others increased. More than twice as many memories were social as opposed to academic. Gender effects, causal agents, and event salience were reported. In Study 2, undergraduates wrote 8 recollections, unconstrained by grade or affect. There was a recency effect, and memories most frequently concerned misfortunes, sports, misbehavior, honors, and boy-girl relationships. Only 13% of the reported memories were academic. Future investigation might probe reasons for the dominance of unpleasant memories from the early grades as well as the paucity of academic memories of schooling.
Journal of Applied Communication Research, Feb 1, 2001
Students of Project Adapt (PA), an instructional program for at-risk middle school students in Br... more Students of Project Adapt (PA), an instructional program for at-risk middle school students in Brooklyn NY, have displayed startling improvement on cognitive outcome measures. Teacher given grades and standardized tests illuminate the progress students have made ...
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ABSTRACT This study was conducted to examine the relationship between student interest and motiva... more ABSTRACT This study was conducted to examine the relationship between student interest and motivation. Previous studies have shown that measures of interest have attained positive relationships with global measures of motivation (Frymier, Shulman & Houser, 1996; Weber & Patterson, 2000). Additionally, even though a number of instructional researchers have speculated that interest is related to motivation through intrinsic means (Brophy, 1983; Mitchell, 1993; Schiefele, 1991; Schraw, Brunning & Svoboda, 1995; Stipiek, 1996; Tobias, 1994), there has been no systematic effort to provide any empirical evidence to these claims. Results indicate that interest is significantly related to intrinsic, but not extrinsic, motivation.
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ABSTRACT A review of the emotional support and social support literature indicates a paucity of i... more ABSTRACT A review of the emotional support and social support literature indicates a paucity of instruments which directly measure the phenomena of interest. While many have utilized assessments of “strong” or “weak” links between relational partners, they have not examined the communication modalities specifically. They have also tended to view emotional support as a unilateral product of a source or receiver rather than a product of communicative interactions. In order to examine support more carefully, a unidimensional instrument was developed to measure the communication of emotional support in relationships. As tests of convergent validity, it was suggested that perceptions of emotional support will be positively correlated to perceptions of relational solidarity and relational quality. The final instrument consisted of 13 communication based items with high reliability and evidence of internal, face, and convergent validity.
Most people state that they would be willing to be organ donors, however only a small percentage ... more Most people state that they would be willing to be organ donors, however only a small percentage of the population has actually signed an organ donor card. These studies focused on persuasive messages that encourage people to sign organ donor cards. In the first study, people reported their attitudes and knowledge involving organ donation. Results indicated that donor card signing was related to overall knowledge about donation. When only considering those people with positive attitudes toward organ donation, their overall knowledge about donation explained their willingness to sign organ donor cards. In the second study, people read a message involving organ donation before they were asked to sign an organ donor card. The content of the message (i.e., narrative vs. statistics) and the affect of the message (i.e., humorous vs. sad) were manipulated. Results indicated that narrative messages were more effective than statistical messages. Additionally, humorous messages were more effective than sad messages.
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and-conditions-of-access.pdf This article may be used for research, teaching and private study pu... more and-conditions-of-access.pdf This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution , reselling , loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae and drug doses should be independently verified with primary sources. The publisher shall not be liable for any loss, actions, claims, proceedings, demand or costs or damages whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with or arising out of the use of this material.
12This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. M... more 12This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality.
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ABSTRACT Two studies were conducted to examine the use of relational maintenance behaviors in the... more ABSTRACT Two studies were conducted to examine the use of relational maintenance behaviors in the sibling relationship. In the first study, the specific relational maintenance behaviors used by siblings were identified. A principal components factor analysis of 70 previously generated behaviors used by 363 participants revealed six factors: confirmation, humor, social support, family visits, escape, and verbal aggression. In the second study, the link between the six relational maintenance behaviors used by siblings and the relational outcomes of liking, commitment, and trust was explored. Results indicate the confirmation, humor, social support, and family visits relational maintenance behaviors are correlated positively with liking, commitment, and trust, but the verbal aggression relational maintenance behavior failed to correlate with liking, commitment, or trust.
The purpose of this study was to determine whether Foeman and Nance's (1999) model of interracial... more The purpose of this study was to determine whether Foeman and Nance's (1999) model of interracial relationship development could be adapted into a generalizable interracial relationship typology and whether there would be distinct differences in the affective, cognitive, and behavioral dimensions of each stage. Long-table analysis of four focus group interviews confirmed differences among the four stages of Foeman and Nance's model. Further examination of focus group transcripts revealed differences between the affective, cognitive, and behavioral dimension of each stage, but few differences between the affective and cognitive dimensions across stages. Implications for the study of relationship development, limitations, and directions for future research are discussed. To Ted: Thank you for your guidance, ability to deal with my wordiness and overwriting, your incessant patience, and the pitchers you provided. Hope the piano holds up. This has been an experience I will never forget and one that I owe you for. To Keith and Scott: Your insights, comments, concerns, and guidance were invaluable. I appreciate everything you both provided. To My Wife: For putting up with long nights, reading and rereading my rough drafts (thanks for being an English teacher), and generally loving me throughout my many moods during work.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 08824090309388807, Jun 6, 2009
ABSTRACT An experiment was conducted in an attempt to test the relationship between teacher lectu... more ABSTRACT An experiment was conducted in an attempt to test the relationship between teacher lecture material, student interest and cognitive learning. Interest was manipulated in two videotapes through character identification. Character identification is one of the attributes suggested by Anderson, Shirey, Wilson and Fielding (1987) that could serve to increase student interest. Analyses indicate that the group viewing the video with easily identifiable characters scored higher on recall tests of lecture material. Additionally, it appears as if this increase was also related to an increase in the competence and meaningfulness dimensions of student interest.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 17464090500535905, Jun 1, 2006
ABSTRACT Over the past few years, professors in the Department of Communication Studies at West V... more ABSTRACT Over the past few years, professors in the Department of Communication Studies at West Virginia University have worked to integrate the graduate research methods course with the communication theory course. The goal is to help the students learn how theory and research are related and to help professors deal with the time management issues involved with guiding student research. The following is a brief rationale and procedural outline explaining how the interchange between the two courses works. A discussion of the benefits and drawbacks associated with this type of pedagogical exercise concludes the piece.
... Schiefele, 1991; Schraw, et al, 1995; Schraw & Dennison, 1994; Tobias, 1994). Conversely,... more ... Schiefele, 1991; Schraw, et al, 1995; Schraw & Dennison, 1994; Tobias, 1994). Conversely, in the field of communication, Frymier, Shulman, and Houser (1994) produced a highly reli-able scale that measures a conceptually ambiguous construct called empowerment. ...
Two studies based in the autobiographical memory paradigm were conducted to extend knowledge of r... more Two studies based in the autobiographical memory paradigm were conducted to extend knowledge of recollections about school. In Study 1, undergraduates wrote 1 pleasant memory and 1 unpleasant memory about each of 4 grade levels. Memories from some categories decreased across grades, whereas others increased. More than twice as many memories were social as opposed to academic. Gender effects, causal agents, and event salience were reported. In Study 2, undergraduates wrote 8 recollections, unconstrained by grade or affect. There was a recency effect, and memories most frequently concerned misfortunes, sports, misbehavior, honors, and boy-girl relationships. Only 13% of the reported memories were academic. Future investigation might probe reasons for the dominance of unpleasant memories from the early grades as well as the paucity of academic memories of schooling.
Journal of Applied Communication Research, Feb 1, 2001
Students of Project Adapt (PA), an instructional program for at-risk middle school students in Br... more Students of Project Adapt (PA), an instructional program for at-risk middle school students in Brooklyn NY, have displayed startling improvement on cognitive outcome measures. Teacher given grades and standardized tests illuminate the progress students have made ...
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 08824090309388837, Jun 6, 2009
ABSTRACT This study was conducted to examine the relationship between student interest and motiva... more ABSTRACT This study was conducted to examine the relationship between student interest and motivation. Previous studies have shown that measures of interest have attained positive relationships with global measures of motivation (Frymier, Shulman & Houser, 1996; Weber & Patterson, 2000). Additionally, even though a number of instructional researchers have speculated that interest is related to motivation through intrinsic means (Brophy, 1983; Mitchell, 1993; Schiefele, 1991; Schraw, Brunning & Svoboda, 1995; Stipiek, 1996; Tobias, 1994), there has been no systematic effort to provide any empirical evidence to these claims. Results indicate that interest is significantly related to intrinsic, but not extrinsic, motivation.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 08824099609362072, Jun 6, 2009
ABSTRACT A review of the emotional support and social support literature indicates a paucity of i... more ABSTRACT A review of the emotional support and social support literature indicates a paucity of instruments which directly measure the phenomena of interest. While many have utilized assessments of “strong” or “weak” links between relational partners, they have not examined the communication modalities specifically. They have also tended to view emotional support as a unilateral product of a source or receiver rather than a product of communicative interactions. In order to examine support more carefully, a unidimensional instrument was developed to measure the communication of emotional support in relationships. As tests of convergent validity, it was suggested that perceptions of emotional support will be positively correlated to perceptions of relational solidarity and relational quality. The final instrument consisted of 13 communication based items with high reliability and evidence of internal, face, and convergent validity.
Most people state that they would be willing to be organ donors, however only a small percentage ... more Most people state that they would be willing to be organ donors, however only a small percentage of the population has actually signed an organ donor card. These studies focused on persuasive messages that encourage people to sign organ donor cards. In the first study, people reported their attitudes and knowledge involving organ donation. Results indicated that donor card signing was related to overall knowledge about donation. When only considering those people with positive attitudes toward organ donation, their overall knowledge about donation explained their willingness to sign organ donor cards. In the second study, people read a message involving organ donation before they were asked to sign an organ donor card. The content of the message (i.e., narrative vs. statistics) and the affect of the message (i.e., humorous vs. sad) were manipulated. Results indicated that narrative messages were more effective than statistical messages. Additionally, humorous messages were more effective than sad messages.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 08824091003738149, Apr 1, 2010
and-conditions-of-access.pdf This article may be used for research, teaching and private study pu... more and-conditions-of-access.pdf This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution , reselling , loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae and drug doses should be independently verified with primary sources. The publisher shall not be liable for any loss, actions, claims, proceedings, demand or costs or damages whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with or arising out of the use of this material.
12This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. M... more 12This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 01463370409370204, May 21, 2009
ABSTRACT Two studies were conducted to examine the use of relational maintenance behaviors in the... more ABSTRACT Two studies were conducted to examine the use of relational maintenance behaviors in the sibling relationship. In the first study, the specific relational maintenance behaviors used by siblings were identified. A principal components factor analysis of 70 previously generated behaviors used by 363 participants revealed six factors: confirmation, humor, social support, family visits, escape, and verbal aggression. In the second study, the link between the six relational maintenance behaviors used by siblings and the relational outcomes of liking, commitment, and trust was explored. Results indicate the confirmation, humor, social support, and family visits relational maintenance behaviors are correlated positively with liking, commitment, and trust, but the verbal aggression relational maintenance behavior failed to correlate with liking, commitment, or trust.
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