Greeting Study - hypotheses

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Greeting students as they enter the class is something that is advocated by class management experts ([1]). But what difference does it really make? Is there a measurable "greeting effect" in the short term?

Literature on Classroom Greetings

• Allday, R. A., & Pakurar, K. (2007) Effects of Teacher Greetings on Student On-task Behavior, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. 2007 Summer; 40(2): 317–320. [2]

• Weinstein, Lawrence et al (2009) Teacher greetings increase college students' test scores, College Student Journal. Retrieved 2/17/10. [3]

• Patterson, Steve (2009) The Effects of Teacher-Student Small Talk on Out-of-Seat Behavior, Education and Treatment of Children. Volume 32, Number 1, February 2009, pp. 167-174. Retrieved 2/17/10. (http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-194529442/effects-teacher-student-small.html)

Korthagen, Fred A. J., (2010) Situated Learning Theory and the Pedagogy of Teacher Education: Towards an Integrative View of Teacher Behavior and Teacher Learning (EJ867048) http://www.sciencedirect.com.libproxy.csun.edu/science/journal/0742051X

Possible Hypotheses

Brainstorm plausible outcomes:

• Greetings will change students interact with their peers
  • increase interactions
  • more respectful
• Greetings will change students interact with their teachers
  • increase participation in class discussions
    • more of the students are participating
  • improve manners
  • more casual communication
  • students ask more questions
• Greetings will result in higher scores and grades
• Greetings will result in less tardies
  • arriving before the bell
  • higher attendance
• Greetings will result in better student attitudes
  • more enthusiasm
  • self esteem
• Greetings will result in more homework turned in
• Greetings will result in teacher discomfort
• Greetings will spread disease

Types of greetings

1. handshake
2. eye contact
3. named greeting
4. formal names ("Hi Mr. Jones")
5. informal names
6. remarking on something positive about a person
7. fist bump
8. head nod

• Fistbump greetings will spread less disease
• some greetings will be more appropriate for higher grades
• formal greetings will result in more respectful conversation
  • more structured conversations
• informal greetings will result less stressful environment