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Abstract

The field of education has produced a vast amount of research on elements affecting communication in the classroom. Within any learning situation, disagreements about ideas or opinions are inevitable. This paper reports the development of a Teacher Tolerance for Disagreement measure (the TTFD instrument). The paper reviews the evolution of the Tolerance for Disagreement construct and previous efforts with reference to measurement. In this study, a 20-item version of a TTFD instrument was found to be unidimensional, reliable, and able to demonstrate good discriminant validity. Students' perceptions of their teachers' caring was found to be related to their perceptions of their teachers' tolerance for disagreement. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.

Journal Title

Iowa Journal of Communication

Volume

32

Issue

2

First Page

117

Last Page

130

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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