Immediacy
Overview
- Influence: Immediacy
- Domain: Teaching Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Instructional strategies
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
- Influence Definition: Behaviors that communicate approachability, facilitating psychological closeness by displaying a timely response to student actions.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 2
- Number of studies: 89
- Number of students: 27,192
- Number of effects: 89
- Weighted mean effect size: 1.06
- Robustness index: 3
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communication Monographs | Witt, Wheeless, & Allen | A meta-analytical review of the relationship between teacher immediacy and student learning. | 2004 | Immediacy of teacher feedback | 81 | 24,474 | 81 | 1.15 | |
| Communication Education | Allen, Witt, Wheeless | The role of teacher immediacy as a motivational factor in student learning: using meta-analysis to test a causal model | 2006 | Immediacy on cognitive outcomes | 8 | 2,718 | 8 | 0.16 | |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 89 | 27,192 | 89 | 0.65 | |||||