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Ellis, Kathleen – Communication Education, 2004
This article reports two studies on teacher confirmation. The first examined (1) students' feelings of confirmation or disconfirmation as a function of perceived teacher behaviors, and (2) whether teacher confirmation behaviors occur in hierarchically arranged clusters. Sixty-one percent of the variance in students' feelings of confirmation was…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Measures (Individuals), Undergraduate Students, Teacher Behavior
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Ellis, Kathleen – Human Communication Research, 2000
Explores the pedagogical role of perceived teacher confirmation in the college classroom. Finds: (1) support for confirmation as a crucial communication variable; (2) a need for further research to clarify the issue of defining "disconfirmation"; (3) support for earlier research establishing confirmation as a receiver-based variable; and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Development, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education