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- Title
The Effects of Online Instructor Immediacy Behaviors on Student Motivation.
- Authors
Fisher, Barbara K.; Katt, James A.
- Abstract
This research examines instructor verbal immediacy behaviors in virtual classrooms and their effects on student motivation and affective learning. Participants were randomly assigned one of two treatment groups and asked to imagine they were enrolled in an online course, reading the course homepage. Two different homepages were constructed using verbally immediate vs. non-immediate wording, according to the categories described by Witt and Wheeler (2001). Participants reported their perceptions of state motivation and affective learning. Although no reliable effects on state motivation were discovered, the results suggest a possible interaction effect between sex and immediacy with regard to affective learning.
- Subjects
VERBAL immediacy; COMPUTER assisted instruction; ACADEMIC motivation; PSYCHOLOGY of learning; AFFECTIVE education; EDUCATIONAL technology
- Publication
Florida Communication Journal, 2007, Vol 35, Issue 2, p100
- ISSN
1050-3366
- Publication type
Article