?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Effectiveness+of+teaching+styles+on+learning+motivation&rft.creator=Mate%2C+Davide&rft.creator=Brizio%2C+Adelina&rft.creator=Tirassa%2C+Maurizio&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Human+Computer+Interaction&rft.subject=Developmental+Psychology&rft.subject=Pragmatics&rft.description=It+is+common+wisdom+in+the+area+of+adult+education+that+the+educator's+relational+attitudes+influence+knowledge+construction+on+the+part+of+the+learners.+It+is+the+aim+of+this+paper+to+contribute+to+an+empirical+evaluation+of+this+idea.+We+identified+four+basic+relational+attitudes+of+the+educator's%2C+namely%3A+(i)+favoring+cooperation%2C+(ii)+directivity%2C+(iii)+flexibility%2C+and+(iv)+ability+to+focus+on+the+participants.+Then%2C+we+identified+31+prototypical+types+of+behavior+that+are+commonly+enacted+by+educators+in+the+classroom.+We+performed+multiple+observations+of+several+adult+education+courses%2C+scoring+each+educator+on+the+list+of+31+behavior+types.+We+performed+factor+analysis+and+then+correlated+such+scores+and+the+corresponding+attitudes+to+indexes+of+the+participants'+levels+of+attention%2C+participation+and+comprehension.+The+results+corroborate+our+hypotheses.+Interestingly%2C+several+differences+was+found+between+novice+and+expert+teachers.+Overall%2C+our+findings+support+the+socio-constructivist+idea+that+knowing+is+a+transformational+process+of+learning+that+takes+place+within+a+relational+context.%0D%0A&rft.contributor=Pedrosa-de-Jesus%2C+M.H.&rft.contributor=Evans%2C+C.&rft.contributor=Charlesworth%2C+Z.&rft.contributor=Cools%2C+E.&rft.date=2010-06-28&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7070%2F1%2F2010-Teaching-ELSIN.htm&rft.identifier=++Mate%2C+Davide+and+Brizio%2C+Adelina+and+Tirassa%2C+Maurizio++(2010)+Effectiveness+of+teaching+styles+on+learning+motivation.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7070%2F