{"title":"Academic advising as teaching: undergraduate student perceptions of advisor confirmation","authors":"Sara Pitts, S. Myers","doi":"10.1080/03634523.2022.2131856","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to explore the role that confirmation plays in the academic advising context, with a focus on identifying the specific confirmation behaviors that advisees perceive their advisors to use with them during advising sessions. Participants were 33 undergraduate students who participated in one of six focus groups. Data analysis identified four confirming behaviors used by academic advisors: recognize students’ experiences outside the classroom, collaborate on educational/career goals, recall prior interactions with students, and offer praise and positive feedback. Participants also identified three disconfirming behaviors used by academic advisors: fail to give students their full attention, answer questions indirectly, and refuse to personalize student experiences. This study extends the conceptualization of confirmation into the academic advising context; while academic advising and teaching are often likened, this study found distinct confirmation behaviors are used in the academic advisor–advisee relationship.","PeriodicalId":47722,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION EDUCATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"COMMUNICATION EDUCATION","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2022.2131856","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to explore the role that confirmation plays in the academic advising context, with a focus on identifying the specific confirmation behaviors that advisees perceive their advisors to use with them during advising sessions. Participants were 33 undergraduate students who participated in one of six focus groups. Data analysis identified four confirming behaviors used by academic advisors: recognize students’ experiences outside the classroom, collaborate on educational/career goals, recall prior interactions with students, and offer praise and positive feedback. Participants also identified three disconfirming behaviors used by academic advisors: fail to give students their full attention, answer questions indirectly, and refuse to personalize student experiences. This study extends the conceptualization of confirmation into the academic advising context; while academic advising and teaching are often likened, this study found distinct confirmation behaviors are used in the academic advisor–advisee relationship.
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Communication Education is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. Communication Education publishes original scholarship that advances understanding of the role of communication in the teaching and learning process in diverse spaces, structures, and interactions, within and outside of academia. Communication Education welcomes scholarship from diverse perspectives and methodologies, including quantitative, qualitative, and critical/textual approaches. All submissions must be methodologically rigorous and theoretically grounded and geared toward advancing knowledge production in communication, teaching, and learning. Scholarship in Communication Education addresses the intersections of communication, teaching, and learning related to topics and contexts that include but are not limited to: • student/teacher relationships • student/teacher characteristics • student/teacher identity construction • student learning outcomes • student engagement • diversity, inclusion, and difference • social justice • instructional technology/social media • the basic communication course • service learning • communication across the curriculum • communication instruction in business and the professions • communication instruction in civic arenas In addition to articles, the journal will publish occasional scholarly exchanges on topics related to communication, teaching, and learning, such as: • Analytic review articles: agenda-setting pieces including examinations of key questions about the field • Forum essays: themed pieces for dialogue or debate on current communication, teaching, and learning issues