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Lambertz-Berndt, Megan M.; Blight, Michael G. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2016
This study investigates cooperativeness, assertiveness, group satisfaction, leader grade, and leadership negotiation in a collaborative assignment conducted in a small group. Researchers manipulated the assignment of team members who reported on measures of group satisfaction and original scales of assertiveness and cooperativeness. Respondents…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, Assignments
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Aliakbari, Mohammad; Bozorgmanesh, Bafrin – Cogent Education, 2015
Ample research findings support the effective role that classroom management strategies play in enhancing students' learning. Drawing upon Iranian high school teachers' classroom management strategies, this article is intended to examine the extent to which these teachers follow assertive classroom management strategies and if these strategies…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Student Surveys
Cangelosi, Barbara R.; Peterson, M. Larry – 1998
A unit in assertive communication strategies for the workplace was developed and tested with approximately 45 juniors and seniors at a Utah high school. For 4 weeks of a 6-week grading period, the students were exposed to basic information on verbal and nonverbal communication and administered a survey designed to tap their individual value system…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Business Communication, Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills
Hoffman, Alan; Field, Sharon; Sawilowsky, Shlomo – 1996
The "Self-Determination Knowledge Scale" (SDKS) Form A and Form B are designed as a pretest and posttest for the "Steps to Self-Determination" curriculum. The program is meant to assist students, with and without disabilities, to learn more about themselves and develop skills to achieve their goals, get support from family and friends, and learn…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assertiveness, Conflict Resolution, Curriculum
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Agada, John – Library and Information Science Research, 1987
A study was conducted at Ahmadu Bello University (Nigeria) to determine whether library science students were less assertive than their counterparts in the law and liberal arts schools. An attitude index administered to 100 undergraduate students showed no significant differences among the assertion levels of the three groups. The questionnaire is…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Attitude Measures, Comparative Analysis, Developing Nations
de Silva, Deema; Freund, Clara – 1987
This handbook for those involved in assisting and encouraging college students to persist and graduate covers the following topics: benefits of college; persistence factors; successful students; a mission that motivates; results in real time; self-management through self-mastery (time management, assertiveness, study skills, learning styles, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Assertiveness