This paper investigates self-regulated learning (SRL) in a virtual learning community of adults interacting through asynchronous textual communication. The investigation method chosen is interaction analysis, a qualitative/quantitative approach allowing a systematic study of the contents of the messages exchanged within online communities. The…

A new paradigm for computer-supported cooperative work and a research agenda for developing and testing this paradigm are proposed. The book outlines a comprehensive model of collaboration that integrates the cognitive/conceptual and social dynamics of groups. The challenge faced by all groups engaged in intellectual work is to divide the task so…

This study is an initial report in a research program to examine the nature and influence of one set of structural variables--participation patterns--on patterns of interaction in sensitivity training groups. (Author)

Some disadvantages in the use of process recordings as an assessment and teaching tool for evaluating the communication skills of the student in nurse-client interactions are discussed. A more useful alternative process requires actual observation and subsequent participation by the instructor during student-client interviews. (EC)

This article discusses three characteristics useful in defining the relations between speakers in the turn-taking aspects of conversation: the derivational history of personal relationships, stop-action pseudo-history versus dynamic compacted posing, and the criss-crossing of verbal versus kinetic axes. (Available from Semiotica, Co-Libri, P.O.…

A study of 184 college-age premarital couples on their communications interaction resulted in a revised 40-item scale differentiating between good and poor communication. Utilizing this premarital communication inventory, a second study of 265 couples contemplating marriage was undertaken to establish mean scores. (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to review and summarize the findings of studies that bear on the effects of race as a counselor-client variable in the counseling relationship. For convenience, the studies have been grouped under two major headings: (1) effects on clients, and (2) effects on counselors. (Author)

This article is a review of five selected theories of person/environment interaction. The five theoretical viewpoints reviewed are Barker's theory of behavior settings, the subculture approach, Holland's theory of personality types and model environments, Stern's need X press=culture theory, and Pervin's transactional approach. (Author)

This study investigated the relationship between informal interaction with students and faculty members' perceptions of students. The findings suggest that increased informal interaction is associated not only with more positive expectations of students' intellectual interests and openness but also with the degree of congruence with students' self…

State anxiety shown by subjects in interactions with a disabled person were compared. Interactions with disabled persons result in increased state anxiety for the normal person. (Author/EK)

Behavioral measures indicated that nonparticipant observation increased the frequency, but not the appropriateness, of teacher-pupil interactions and did not affect the appropriateness of student behaviors. (Author)

This study, which focused on interactional and contingency aspects of the imitative process, examined the contributions of six normally developing and four moderately retarded children to imitative interactions with their mothers. The subjects were part of a group of 20 mother-child dyads who participated in an 18-month longitudinal study.…

Research on communication in counseling has identified/defined counselor communication behaviors which may affect client response and change. To further understand the pattern of interaction between counselor and client, transcripts of four initial interviews by Albert Ellis and two by Carl Rogers were analyzed for the pattern of responding within…