Masters of Fate or Victims of Circumstances? Connecting Communication Centers with Locus of Control

Autor/inn/en	Schwartzman, Roy; Boger, Karen E.
Titel	Masters of Fate or Victims of Circumstances? Connecting Communication Centers with Locus of Control
Quelle	In: Communication Center Journal, 3 (2017) 1, S.3-22 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2575-694X
Schlagwörter	Academic Support Services; Communication Skills; Locus of Control; Student Empowerment; Undergraduate Students; Peer Teaching; Tutors; Minority Group Students; Minority Serving Institutions; Consultation Programs; Supervisors; Academic Achievement + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kommunikationsstil; Studienberechtigung; Peer group teaching; Peer Group Teaching; Förderlehrer; Lehrender; Tutor; Fachberatung; Schulleistung
Abstract	Longstanding research correlates locus of control (LOC)-- the sense of self-empowerment (internal orientation) versus feeling influenced by events others control (external orientation)--with self-motivation, persistence, high academic achievement, and workplace success. In study 1, undergraduate peer tutors (n = 31) at a midsize, doctoral-granting, minority-serving university completed a variant of the teacher locus of control (TLOC) survey, which measures the degree of internal/external LOC orientation in educational settings. In study 2, communication center supervisors (n = 12) and undergraduate peer tutors (n = 13) from 14 institutions nationwide completed a qualitative survey describing how they approach consultations with student clientele. The studies found: (1) Supervisors exhibited slightly higher external LOC than peer tutors, indicating a keener sense of restrictions on their personal agency and deferring more to specific procedures as solutions to challenging situations. (2) Small but statistically significant correlations were found between a tutor's self-identified race and LOC orientation. White tutors more readily attributed levels of achievement to the nature of the student (external LOC); nonwhite tutors treated achievement levels more as products of the consultation techniques (internal LOC). (3) Qualitative data show that communication center personnel must balance the tensions between different LOC orientations, perhaps by ranging across the continuum from highly internal to highly external. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01