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Assessment And Skill Development For Esl Students In Mainstream Communication Classes Requiring Oral Presentations, Katherine G. Hendrix Jan 2000

Assessment And Skill Development For Esl Students In Mainstream Communication Classes Requiring Oral Presentations, Katherine G. Hendrix

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article discusses the rhetoric-based teaching strategies which address how to assist the oral and written competency of English as a Second Language (ESL) students in separate, specialized speaking, writing, and/or preparatory courses. This article also offer two areas of preparation for professors and graduate teaching assistants who have a small number of ESL students enrolled in regular sections of public speaking courses. In addition, this article provides an overview of the campus setting, areas of preparation recommended by B. L. Quigley and colleagues, application of the recommended assessment and instructional strategies, perceptions of the ESL study participants regarding the …


The Re-Education Of An Old Debater, James E. Sayer Jan 2000

The Re-Education Of An Old Debater, James E. Sayer

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

Recounts the experience of joining a faculty debate on the issue of changing a university's quarter system to a semester system in the U.S. Modification on the style of argumentation to better match that of non-debaters; Overview of the format for the debate; Lessons learned from the debate after hours of research and oral/e-mail argument.


The Scholarship Of Discovery, Jean Dobos Jan 2000

The Scholarship Of Discovery, Jean Dobos

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article examines the traditional criteria for evaluating faculty research. Building on a summary of faculty evaluation studies provided a useful list of traditional criteria prominent in the evaluation of faculty research: quantitative measures, qualitative measures, peer judgments and eminence measures. Listed among the quantitative measures are the number of publications in refereed professional journals and the number of books or book chapters. The traditional qualitative measures when applied to the evaluation of the scholarship of discovery, pose still other questions and problems for the communication discipline. The peer-review standard should be relatively straightforward to apply to the evaluation of …


Scholarship Reconsidered: What Boyer's Proposal Means For Communication: A Response, Judith S. Trent Jan 2000

Scholarship Reconsidered: What Boyer's Proposal Means For Communication: A Response, Judith S. Trent

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

Comments on the interpretation of Ernest Boyer regarding scholarship. Concept of Boyer's reinterpretation of scholarship; Impact of the Boyer report on universities; Concerns on the redefinition of scholarship in terms of the Communication discipline.


Transforming Scholarship Assessed Into Scholarship Accessed: Examining The Communication Implications Of A Boyer Report, Michael W. Shelton Jan 2000

Transforming Scholarship Assessed Into Scholarship Accessed: Examining The Communication Implications Of A Boyer Report, Michael W. Shelton

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article presents an overview of the book Scholarship Assessed, by C. E. Glassick et al. The book is an Ernest Boyer project of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The work is clearly designed to extend the original argument made in the book Scholarship Reconsidered, which builds the case for extending the boundaries of what counts as scholarly activity for the nation's faculty at colleges and universities. The text is divided into five chapters that follow Boyer's prologue. In addition, the text attempts to address the concerns raised by Boyer and to develop a general understanding of …


Information Utility, Reader Interest, Publication Rating And Student Newspaper Readership, Carolyn Lin Jan 2000

Information Utility, Reader Interest, Publication Rating And Student Newspaper Readership, Carolyn Lin

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article investigates student motivations for reading a college student paper, including evaluations of performance and content preferences. The declining interest in newspaper readership, particularly among college-age readers has attracted concern among scholars in recent years. In a democracy founded on freedom of the press, fewer than 40% of adults today under the age of 30 subscribe to a paper. This suggests that time spent with newspapers continues to decline even as new media use accounts for the bulk of audience leisure.


One Solution For Managing Risks During Cutbacks In Residency Training Programs, Patrick Knott, Kathleen Ruroede Jan 2000

One Solution For Managing Risks During Cutbacks In Residency Training Programs, Patrick Knott, Kathleen Ruroede

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Professors Knott and Ruroede examine the risks associated with downsizing and elimination of physician residency training programs.


Higher Education In Maine: A Conversation With Sally Vamvakias, Sally Vamvakias Jan 2000

Higher Education In Maine: A Conversation With Sally Vamvakias, Sally Vamvakias

Maine Policy Review

This conversation between Sally Vamvakias, former chair of the University of Maine System Board of Trustees took place on October 5, 1999. At the time, Vamvakias had just completed her ten-year tenure as a trustee, the last four as chair. In this forward-looking conversation, Vamvakias talks about the change that electronic forms of knowledge transmission are bringing to higher education, and lays out the challenges to the University of Maine System as we begin the new millennium. This interview was conducted for Maine Policy Review by Luisa S. Deprez of the University of Southern Maine.