TY - JOUR
T1 - Learning to Listen
T2 - Teaching an Active Listening Strategy to Preservice Education Professionals
AU - McNaughton, David
AU - Hamlin, Dawn
AU - McCarthy, John
AU - Head-Reeves, Darlene
AU - Schreiner, Mary
PY - 2008/2
Y1 - 2008/2
N2 - The importance of parent–teacher communication has been widely recognized; however, there is only limited research on teaching effective listening skills to education professionals. In this study, a pretest–posttest control group design was used to examine the effect of instruction on the active listening skills of preservice education professionals. Instruction resulted in statistically significant improvement for targeted active listening skills. As a measure of social validity, parents of preschool and school-age children viewed pre- and postinstruction videotapes of preservice education professionals in role-play conversations. The parents judged the postinstruction performances of the preservice education professionals to be better examples of effective communication than the preinstruction performances of the preservice education professionals.
AB - The importance of parent–teacher communication has been widely recognized; however, there is only limited research on teaching effective listening skills to education professionals. In this study, a pretest–posttest control group design was used to examine the effect of instruction on the active listening skills of preservice education professionals. Instruction resulted in statistically significant improvement for targeted active listening skills. As a measure of social validity, parents of preschool and school-age children viewed pre- and postinstruction videotapes of preservice education professionals in role-play conversations. The parents judged the postinstruction performances of the preservice education professionals to be better examples of effective communication than the preinstruction performances of the preservice education professionals.
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U2 - 10.1177/0271121407311241
DO - 10.1177/0271121407311241
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:39149136855
SN - 0271-1214
VL - 27
SP - 223
EP - 231
JO - Topics in Early Childhood Special education
JF - Topics in Early Childhood Special education
IS - 4
ER -
