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Assessing Adolescents' Communicative Self-Efficacy to Discuss Controversial Issues: Findings from a Randomized Study of the Word Generation Program
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Lin, Alex R.; Lawrence, Joshua F.; Snow, Catherine E.; Taylor, Karen S. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2016
Communicative self-efficacy serves as an important link between discussing controversial issues and civic engagement because confidence in one's discourse skills is important to managing conflicting perspectives and developing solutions to community-based problems. Freely available to schools, "Word Generation" is a cross-content…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Communication Skills, Content Area Reading, Literacy Education
Increasing Class Participation in Social Phobic Students
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Miranda, Michael V. – Community College Enterprise, 2008
The "Find Your Classroom Voice Program" has been offered at Kingsborough Community College for the past three years. Its purpose is to enable students who are consistently inactive in class discussions (and who might be called "classroom-specific social phobic") to develop the ability to take a more active role in the classroom. With its success,…
Descriptors: Student Participation, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Anxiety
Creating Conversations: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary Team Teaching.
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Cowan, Michael A.; And Others – College Teaching, 1995
Three courses in the adult education division of Loyola University (Louisiana) combined religious studies and literature appreciation using an interdisciplinary, team-taught approach. Instruction was guided by the metaphor of conversation, first through collegial discussion of the ideas underlying the courses and later, in the classroom, in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Assignments, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
Classtalk: A Classroom Communication System for Active Learning.
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Dufresne, Robert J.; And Others – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1996
College physics teachers describe their experience using a computer-based classroom communication system that facilitates presentation of questions for small-group work, collection of student answers, and display of histograms showing how the class answered, all feeding into classwide discussions. The technique engages students in active learning…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Communication, College Instruction, College Science
Two Innovative Programs in a Small Town in Iowa: Planning, Development, and Evaluation.
Bishop, Doris – 1978
This paper describes two programs for primary grade children designed to increase students' sense of self-esteem by enabling them to have a more successful school experience and to minimize maladaptive behavior related to school stress. The programs were developed as preventative programs to decrease later school problems. A Child-Aide program was…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Guidance Programs
Professional Teacher Education II; A Programed Design Developed by the AACTE Teacher Education and Media Project.
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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Washington, DC. – 1968
The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) Media Project was developed to determine whether (1) the gap between the producer and the user of educational innovations could be bridged; (2) a meaningful way to present the results of educational research to the user could be designed; and (3) the integrated and functional use…
Descriptors: Behavior, Classroom Communication, Concept Formation, Decision Making