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pre-service teachers' attitudes and effectiveness. The study involved 35 graduate
teacher interns who were assigned to either the experimental or control group. The
experimental group took a classroom management course involving role-playing while
the control group took a traditional, no role-playing, classroom management course. A
repeated measures method was used to measure two dependent variables: 1) the
interns' attitudes toward classroom management and 2) the effectiveness of the interns'
classroom management skills. For the first variable, an attitude survey was
administered. For the second variable, each intern provided a five-minute video of
himself/herself teaching and an expert panel rated each video. Each of these
instruments was administered as a pretest, posttest, and follow-up measure. The study
revealed no statistically significant differences between groups; however, it represented
an attempt to explore the use of a theatre concept in the study of a concept with which
pre-service teachers often struggle to master, classroom management.
Friedland (2004) described a two and a half year long pilot program in oral
communication across the curriculum implemented at a small college. Due to the
absence of a communications department at the school, theatre and education faculty
collaborated to provide students with oral communication skills training. According to
Friedland, who had a background in theatre and education, the literature pertaining to
oral communication across the curriculum did not mention any programs that involved
theatre faculty. Friedland sought to explore the theatre-education faculty collaboration
as a possible means of implementing oral communication training students in schools
with no communications department. The significance of this pilot program to the41
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Vandivere, Allen Hale. An Investigation of the Nonverbal Communication Behaviors and Role Perceptions of Pre-Service Band Teachers who Participated in Theatre Seminars, dissertation, August 2008; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9019/m1/50/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .