BCCA Contents & Abstracts, Volume 15, 2003

Editor Deanna Sellnow
ISBN 978-0-89641-390-0

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    Sims, Judy Rene — Streaming Student Speeches on the Internet: Convenient and “Connected” Feedback in the Basic Course — Undergraduate students enrolled in three sections of a basic speech course over a period of three semesters were surveyed regarding their evaluations of the video streaming of their speeches on the Internet as a method of feedback. To research this topic, speeches were videotaped and posted to a protected Internet site. Students then had the opportunity to access the site, view their speech, prepare a list of speech goals based on their viewing, and later evaluate the experience by means of a questionnaire. (1-40)

  • Fassett, Deanna L. — On Defining At-Risk: The Role of Educational Ritual in Constructions of Success and Failure — By adopting an ethnomethodological approach to the analysis of focus group interviews with undergraduate students enrolled in and teachers of the introductory course in speech communication, this essay demonstrates that what we understand to be a stable, objective aspect of reality is in fact a human accomplishment, the result of concerted, though unreflective, social action. This paper explores the ways in which students’ and graduate teaching assistants’ espousal of educational rituals may create and sustain their risk of educational failure. The implications of such a perspective for graduate teaching assistants of the basic courses are also examined. (41-82)

  • Warren, John T. — Performative Pedagogy, At-Risk Students, and the Basic Course: Fourteen Moments in Search of Possibility — This essay sketches out the complications of a performative pedagogy in the context of a basic communication course, specifically examining how the course negotiates and constitutes what communication scholars have called “educational risk.” (83-116)

  • Dwyer, Karen Kangas, Robert E. Carlson & Jennifer Dalbey — Oral Communication Apprehension — This study examines the impact of high school public speaking skills training and public speaking experiences on college overall communication apprehension (CA) and public speaking context CA. (117-143)

  • Turman, Paul D. & Matthew H. Barton — Stretching the Academic Dollar: The Appropriateness of Utilizing Instructor Assistants in the Basic Course — As more universities across the country are feeling the pressures of providing an increasingly rigid financial accountability to tax payers and state legislatures, speech and communication departments find themselves in a precarious position. Namely, how can communication departments teach the budding number of students enrolled in their courses with little in¬crease in budget, while continuing to produce effective speakers? (144-168)
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