Testing the neutralizing effect of instructor immediacy on student course workload expectancy violations and tolerance for instructor unavailability

Communication Education

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 147-166

  Mottet, Timothy P ^a   Parker Raley, Jessica ^b   Cunningham, Cory ^c   Beebe, Steven A ^a   Raffeld, Paul C ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Course Workload; Expectancy Violation Theory; Instructor Availability; Instructor Immediacy; Student Compliance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645213005     PISSN: 03634523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03634520600565886     Document Type: Article

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