Bianca Botha
Professor Works
COMM 200
10 November 2014 First Article Review: Professors’ affects on Students
In the research article titled Behavioral Indicators of Transformational Leadership in the College Classroom, authors San Bolkan and Alan K. Goodboy attempt to classify which behavior it is that instructors communicate to their students that promotes transformational leadership in their students. The behaviors being observed included charisma, individual consideration and intellectual stimulation. It has been questioned whether certain teaching behaviors could actually help facilitate how students learn in college classrooms; thus leading to the examinations of how teachers represent and emphasizes leadership. A particular interest in this article is transformational leadership. This is the idea that morals, motivation and job performance is enhanced through a variety of mechanisms. …show more content…
The participants of this study include 166 undergraduate students (49 males and 117 females) who are enrolled in communication studies courses at a midsized Eastern institution. The ages of partakers ranged from 18 to 36 years. Each individual was randomly given one of three versions of an open-ended survey. Each of the three surveys defined one of the three measurements of transformational leadership (trust, respect, and admiration). Participants gave three written narratives describing how their professor’s communication reflected the descriptions on the surveys. This experiment resulted in 58 (45 women and 13 men) responses on charisma, 50 (15 men and 35 women) on individualized consideration, and 58 (21 men and 37 women) on intellectual
Professor Works
COMM 200
10 November 2014 First Article Review: Professors’ affects on Students
In the research article titled Behavioral Indicators of Transformational Leadership in the College Classroom, authors San Bolkan and Alan K. Goodboy attempt to classify which behavior it is that instructors communicate to their students that promotes transformational leadership in their students. The behaviors being observed included charisma, individual consideration and intellectual stimulation. It has been questioned whether certain teaching behaviors could actually help facilitate how students learn in college classrooms; thus leading to the examinations of how teachers represent and emphasizes leadership. A particular interest in this article is transformational leadership. This is the idea that morals, motivation and job performance is enhanced through a variety of mechanisms. …show more content…
The participants of this study include 166 undergraduate students (49 males and 117 females) who are enrolled in communication studies courses at a midsized Eastern institution. The ages of partakers ranged from 18 to 36 years. Each individual was randomly given one of three versions of an open-ended survey. Each of the three surveys defined one of the three measurements of transformational leadership (trust, respect, and admiration). Participants gave three written narratives describing how their professor’s communication reflected the descriptions on the surveys. This experiment resulted in 58 (45 women and 13 men) responses on charisma, 50 (15 men and 35 women) on individualized consideration, and 58 (21 men and 37 women) on intellectual