The Relationship Between Teacher Sign Skills and Student Evaluations of Teacher Capability

• Published in: American annals of the deaf (Washington, D.C. 1886) Vol. 144; no. 5; pp. 354 - 364
• Main Authors: Long, Gary, Stinson, Michael, Kelly, Ronald R., Liu, Yufang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC Conference of Educational Administrators of Schools and Programs for the Deaf 01.12.1999; Gallaudet University Press; American Annals of the Deaf
• Subjects: American sign language; Biological and medical sciences; Classroom Communication; College Students; Communication; Communication Skills; Deafness; Ear, auditive nerve, cochleovestibular tract, facial nerve: diseases, semeiology; Higher Education; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Medical sciences; Non tumoral diseases; Otorhinolaryngology. Stomatology; Perception; Perceptions; Performance Factors; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Reading Comprehension; Semiotics; Sign Language; Sign languages; Statistical significance; Student Attitudes; Student evaluation; Student teacher relationship; Students; Surveys and Questionnaires; Teacher attitudes; Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher Student Relationship; Teacher surveys; Teachers; Teaching; Teaching Skills; Teaching. Deontology. Ethics. Legislation; Thinking Skills; Total communication; Vocabulary; United States; North America; America; United States > US; San Francisco California; Performance evaluation; Human; Statistical analysis; Ear disease; Evaluation scale; Auditory disorder; Teacher; Student; Teaching; Hearing loss; Sign language; ENT disease; Communication

This study examines the extent to which deaf students' perceptions of their teachers' effectiveness and ease of communication in the classroom are related to the teachers' sign skills. Thirty-three faculty, teaching a variety of courses at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf...