Two different videotaped interviews were staged with the same individual—a college instructor who spoke English with a European accent. In one of the interviews the instructor was warm and friendly, in the other, cold and distant. The subjects who saw the warm instructor rated his appearance, mannerisms, and accent as appealing, whereas those who saw the cold instructor rated these attributes a...

HUMAN CARE THEORY (WATSON) ON THE NURSING STUDENTS PERCEPTION OF THE CARE Saeedeh Elhami, Hojat Zareh Houshyari Khah, Khadijeh Moradbeigi, Nasim Hatefi Moadab, Bahman Cheraghian. Instructor, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Abadan school of medical sciences, Abadan, Iran; Instructor, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Abadan school of Medical ...

Understanding large amounts of multimedia information is a challenge in many domains – as technology makes its way into the classroom, the classroom becomes one such domain. An instructor has little attention to focus on the technology and is instead focused on teaching. We examine several techniques for clustering digital ink diagrams drawn by students during in-class activities. These diagram...

Physics Education Research (PER) is currently facing significant difficulties in disseminating research-based knowledge and instructional strategies to other faculty. Co-teaching is a promising and cost-effective alternative to traditional professional development that may be applicable in many situations. This paper discusses the rationale for coteaching and our initial experience with co-teac...

The explosion in the number of students taking online courses warrants a deeper understanding of instructor strategies that meet rhetorical and relational goals. Guided by social presence theory and rhetorical and relational goals theory, 329 participants were randomly assigned into one of three manipulated social presence online learning conditions to watch a short lecture. The student percept...

Students' judgments of their own learning are often misled by perceptions of fluency-the ease with which information is presented during learning. Lectures represent important learning experiences that contain variations in fluency, but have not been extensively studied. In the current study, students watched a 22-min videotaped lecture that was delivered by the same instructor in either a flue...