Fashion in the classroom II: Instructor immediacy and attire

Results of a 2 (immediacy conditions) X 3 (attire conditions) experimental study indicated lesser effects of attire on person perceptions when studied in a live interaction context as opposed to responses to photographs, as has been typical in previous studies. Influence of attire was largely limited to ratings of instructor extroversion, while immediacy influenced perceptions of extroversion, composure, character, competence, homophily, and learning. There was no statistically significant interaction between attire and immediacy; i.e., there was no indication that strategic choice of attire bolsters student ratings of non‐immediate instructors, or that “non professional” attire hurts judgements of immediate instructors.     

A transfer in learning

A Bibliography of Speech Pathology. By Robert West and Mildred Gottbank. Madison, Wisconsin: College Typing Co., 1940; pp. 41, mimeographed.

Annals of the New York Stage, Vol. XI. By George C. D. Odell. New York: Columbia University Press, 1939. $8.75.

Broadcast Receivers and Phonographs for Classroom Use. New York: Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning, 1939; pp. 95. Paper.

Central Sound Systems for Schools. New York : Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning, 1940; pp. 69. Paper.

Sound Recording Equipment for Schools. New York : Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning, 1940; pp. 52. Paper.

The Enjoyment of Drama. By Milton Marx. New York: F. S. Crofts &; Co., 1940; pp. 242. $1.50

Essentials of Parliamentary Procedure. By J. Jeffery Auer. New York : F. S. Crofts &; Co., 1940 ; pp. x + 35. $.40.

A Handbook of Voice and Diction. By F. Lincoln D. Holmes. F. S. Crofts and Company, 1940; pp. 270. $2.00.

The Logic of Language. By James MacKaye. Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Publications, 1939; pp. 303.

Plays of America's Growth. By Samuel S. Ullman. New York: Dodd, Mead &; Company, 1940. pp. 227. $2.00.

The Effect of Varied Amounts of Phonetic Training on Primary Reading. By Donald C. Agnew. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1939 ; pp. viii + 50. $1.00.

Minor Mental Maladjustments in Normal People. By J. E. Wallace Wallin. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1939 ; pp. IX + 296. $3.00.

Science of Language: Vol. II, Word Study. By J. J. Callahan. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Duquesne University Press, 1939; pp. 272 + xi.

Stage Fright And What To Do About It. By Dwight Everett Watkins and Harrison M. Karr, with illustrations by Zadie Harvey. Boston: Expression Company, 1940; pp. 110. $1.50.

The Actor's Handbook, By Caroline Silverthorne. Boston: Expression Company, 1939 ; pp. xiii + 350. $2.50.

Twenty Short Plays On A Royalty Holiday, Vol. II. Edited by Margaret Mayorga. New York : Samuel French, 1940 ; pp. viii + 486. $3.00.

With Puppets Mimes And Shadows. By Margaret K. Soifer. Brooklyn, N.Y. : The Furrow Press, 1936; pp. 116. $1.50.

Handbook of Parliamentary Law—Revised Edition. By F. M. Gregg. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1940; pp. xii + 112. $1.00.

In a Word. By Margaret S. Ernst. Drawings by James Thurber. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939; pp. 251. $2.50.

Art and Craft of Play Production. By Barnard Hewitt. Chicago: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1940; pp. xii + 388; illustrated. $2.90.

How to Increase Reading Ability: A Guide to Diagnostic and Remedial Methods. By Albert J. Harris. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1940 ; pp. xix + 403. $3.00.

The Mechanism of the Human Voice. By Robert Curry, with a foreword by Douglas Guthrie. New York—Toronto (printed in Great Britain): Longmans, Green &; Co., 1940; pp. ix + 205.

The Language of Gesture. By Macdonald Critchley. London: Edwin Arnold &; Co., (New York: Longmans, Green) 1939; pp. 128. $1.75.

The World's Greatest Debate. Edited by Glenn Clark. St. Paul, Minn. Macalester Park Publishing Co., 1940 ; pp. viii + 214. $2.75.

Public Speaking for Technical Men. By S. Marion Tucker. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc., 1939; pp. xvi + 397. $3.00.

Education on the Air. Tenth Yearbook of the Institute for Education by Radio. Edited by Josephine H. MacLatchy. Columbus : Ohio State University, 1939; pp. ix + 436. $3.00.

Aeschylus, The Creator of Tragedy. By Gilbert Murray. New York : Oxford University Press, 1939; pp. 220.

Your Speech, Sixth Grade I, II ; Seventh Grade I ; Eighth Grade I. By David Powers and Suzanne Martin. New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1940; pp. 192, 202, 168, 168. $.75 each.

Interpretation of the Printed Page. By S. H. Clark, revised by Maud May Babcock. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1940; pp. 402. $2.00.

Effective Speaking for Every Occasion. By Willard Hayes Yeager. New York : Prentice‐Hall, 1940 ; pp. viii + 444. $2.60.

Building Your Vocabulary. By John G. Gilmartin. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1939; pp. v‐ix + 281. $1.12.

Tested Public Speaking. By Elmer Wheeler. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1939; pp. vii‐x + 173. $2.00.

How to Overcome Stammering. By Mabel F. Gifford. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1940; pp. XII + 169. $2.45.

Sophocles, Poet and Dramatist. By William Nickerson Bates. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1940; pp. xiii + 291. $3.50.

The Invasion from Mars. By Hadley Cantril, with the assistance of Hazel Gaudet and Herta Herzog. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1940; pp. xv + 228. $2.50.

Filibustering in the Senate. By Franklin L. Burdette. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1940 ; pp. ix + 252. $2.50.

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Rhode Island Speaks, and Rhode Island High School Model Congress. Bristol, R.I. : Rhode Island Speech Association, Monographs No. 1 and 2, 1940.

Make Yourself a Better Speaker. By E. C. Buehler. New York : The Ronald Press Company, 1940 ; pp. xii + 250. $2.50.

Children and the Theater. By Caroline E. Fisher and Hazel Glaister Robertson. California: Stanford University Press, 1940. pp. XIII + 191. $3.00.

A Speech Teacher's Manual By Florence Henderson. Honolulu, T.H.: University of Hawaii Book Store, 1940; pp. v + 111; mimeographed.

Edmund Burke and His Literary Friends. By Donald Cross Bryant. St. Louis : Washington University Studies—New Series. Language and Literature— No. 9. 1939; pp. xii + 323. $2.75.

Representative American Speeches: 1938–1939. Selected by A. Craig Baird. The Reference Shelf, vol. 13, no. 3. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1939; pp. 265; $1.25.

Anthology of Public Speeches. Compiled by Mabel Platz. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1940; pp. 852; $3.75.

The American Neutrality Problem. Compiled and edited by Charles F. Phillips and J. V. Garland. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1939; pp. 404. $2.00.

The Student Congress Movement: with Discussion on American Neutrality. Edited by Lyman Spicer Judson. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1940; pp. 225. $1.25.

The American Drama Since 1918. By Joseph Wood Krutch. New York: Random House, 1939; pp. 325. $2.50.

American Playwrights: 1918–1938. By Eleanor Flexner. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939; pp. 331. $2.50.

How to Make Good Recordings. Audio Devices, 1600 Broadway, New York, 1940. pp. 128. $1.25.

Yearbook of Drama Festivals and Contests. By Ernest Bavely. Cincinnati, Ohio: Educational Theatre Press, 1939; pp. 144.

Mr. Cibber of Drury Lane. By Richard Hindry Barker. New York: Columbia University Press, 1939; pp. 278. $3.00.

Today in American Drama. By Frank Hurburt O'Hara. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1939; pp. 277. $2.50.     

Fashion in the classroom III: Effects of instructor attire and immediacy in natural classroom interactions

This is the third of three studies using complementary designs to investigate the effects of teacher attire on student perceptions of instructors and instruction in contemporary college classrooms. In line with Studies One and Two, modest effects of attire on perceptions of extroversion and competence were found; however, previous conclusions that instructor attire has little meaningful, predictable effect on ratings of attributes related to either approachability or credibility were reinforced. Student judgements of such attributes were influenced far more by teacher use of immediacy behaviors than by attire. In particular, positive effects resulting from teachers’ choice of formal professional attire were not supported.

This is the final study in a three‐part series designed to investigate the implications of instructor attire in the contemporary college classroom. Interest in this topic was sparked by collegial conversations regarding advice for new teaching assistants: What can they do to enhance credibility, approachability, and teacher evaluations? Does what they wear make a difference?     

Natural Acceleration: Supporting Creative Trajectories

Natural acceleration happens through an internal fire that burns to learn and may transcend school boundaries. Based on their passionate interests and connections with a domain, children who hunger for domain understandings outside school curricula require different types of acceleration, motivated by these interests. The lifeworks, domains, and interests of two eminent Brazilian brothers, Walter and Roberto Burle Marx, represent different creative trajectories. Examining childhood experiences that helped them accomplish their endeavors finds major differences in their early education. Both boys reported that their real education was through pursuit of their passions wherein they hungered for expertise, not through school. Though acceleration in school subjects certainly benefits some students, careful observation and honoring of young children's passions allows natural acceleration steered by the student, rather than school personnel, which may lead to greater possibilities of attaining high levels of creativity.