COMM 31: Human Communication Research Methods and Results Sections 40 Points Possible Your Score | Possible Pts Method: content (includes: istics of the participants, a déyéription of the Ad to assess cach variable, and the “nh foreach scale) Yar woctery a but mircluds which tomo wer mucrae- ceded Method: appendix. (includes an appendix with all survey items) a net guste MFA cee the 2ranyole opperdiy Resi {teNt (includes the: pa statistcdhndings, and results in non- statistics Mangu: ‘each hypothesis/research question; refers co tables and graphs, if applicable) a re Method and results: writing style_ (eg, language choices, grammatical errors, ‘sentence/paragraph development, etc.) Poerd jot: JO 10 Additional comments: Ud werk, Adam! Total Points £5 Behe edt AY (40Credibility and OCC 1 Running head: CREDIBILITY AND OCC Perceived Instructor Credibility as a Predictor of Out-of-Class Communication Adam Behnke Wheaton CollegeCredibility and OCC 2 Participants Participants were 38 students (25 male, 13 female) enrolled in Wheaton College. One \ 9) participant was a first-year student, 14 participants were sophomores, 12 participants were ee jo juniors, and 11 were seniors. “ oe ee {bt > C > pre” “Procedures and Materials Eighty-cight individuals received an email from the researcher which briefly explained the study, assured them participation was voluntary, reminded them they must 18 years of age or older, and provided a link to the survey on surveymonkey.com. Participants completed demographic questions first, then the Measure of Source Credibility (McCroskey & Teven, 1999), and finished with the Out of Class Interaction scale (Knapp, Martin, & Myers, 2003). Participants were instructed to complete the instruments in reference to the instructor of the course they attended first that day. Participants were not asked to identify the instructor, ensuring anonymity and not allowing the researcher to know about whom the participants were reporting. Thirty-cight respondents completed the majority or the entirety of the survey. The responses were confidential and anonymous. Data was collected during the last week of March, 2011. Perceived instructor credibility was assessed using McCroskey & Teven’s (1999) Measure of Source Credibility, an 18-item instrument that asks respondents to report their perceptions of the instructor’s competence, caring, and character. Six characteristics measure each dimension, in random order with the other dimensions’ characteristics. Respondents described their instructor on a 7-point bipolar semantic differential scale (e.g. “Untrained