On social change, agency, and public interest: what can science communication learn from public relations?

Roberson, Tara

doi:10.22323/2.19020401

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“…Interest is a feeling of pleasure, attention to learning, participation in learning, and the desire and awareness of learning mathematics from students in an activity. Interests can change from one time to another, from place to place (Pauker et al, 2022, Nye et al, 2021, Roberson, 2020. The relationship between students' motivation to learn mathematics and students' interest in mathematics has been studied several times (Doño & Mangila, 2021, Roche et al, 2021.…”

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The Impact of Students Assessing the Level of Difficulty Test Item on Interest and Motivation in Learning Mathematics

Rukli

Ma'rup

2022

Rand. Inter. Edu. Ling. Sci. J.

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According to Item Response Theory, the difficulty level is a characteristic of the test item. The difficulty level of the test items is a characteristic of the test items that are on a scale with the ability level parameter. However, this relationship has not been studied optimally, especially in students' interest and motivation in learning mathematics. This study examines the impact of student involvement in assessing the level of the difficulty test item on interest and motivation in learning mathematics with the approach of assessment as learning. The study involved 176 students from grade VII in SMP and MTs. High-level reasoning test items were adapted from TIMSS test items, while the interest and motivation instruments used a questionnaire. Data analysis used percentages and paired t test. The results showed the difference between before and after estimating the difficulty level test items to students' interest and motivation in learning mathematics. The interest and motivation of students in learning mathematics increased after estimating the level of difficulty of the test items. Therefore, to increase students' interest and motivation in learning mathematics, teachers can involve students in assessing the level of difficulty of the test items using the approach of assessment as learning.

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The Impact of Students Assessing the Level of Difficulty Test Item on Interest and Motivation in Learning Mathematics

Rukli

Ma'rup

2022

Rand. Inter. Edu. Ling. Sci. J.

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“…The communication professionals' only courteously requested the researchers' support for the online activities of their colleagues or organization because they might be perceived as inappropriate. This can be interpreted as being perceived as too "corporate-ized" in Roberson's [2020] terms. These findings also echo the need to reflect the convergence that is required for managing increased communication complexity and to transcend the divergent and outdated conceptualizations of science public relations [Klerk and Verwey, 2013;Roberson, 2020] to free the academic institutions' capabilities to take part in societal discussion as a strategic organizational practice.…”

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“…This can be interpreted as being perceived as too "corporate-ized" in Roberson's [2020] terms. These findings also echo the need to reflect the convergence that is required for managing increased communication complexity and to transcend the divergent and outdated conceptualizations of science public relations [Klerk and Verwey, 2013;Roberson, 2020] to free the academic institutions' capabilities to take part in societal discussion as a strategic organizational practice. Furthermore, the findings align with the need to associate researchers' and organizational actorhood in science communication [Autzen and Weitkamp, 2019].…”

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Challenges in the collaboration between researchers and in-house communication professionals in the digital media landscape

Koivumäki¹,

Karvonen²,

Koivumäki³

2021

JCOM

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In the changing science communication landscape, researchers may govern their public science-society relations through the social media connections at their fingertips. However, digital media outreach may create challenges for researchers and cause changes in the communication professionals' role. The aim of this qualitative interview study was to enhance understanding of the challenges in the rarely explored organizational collaboration between researchers and communication professionals. The results identify ambiguous duties and responsibilities, as well as blurring boundaries of occupational roles and coordination challenges in content production.

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“…Scientific organizations occupy a special position as they are obliged to meet the politically fostered societal objectives of science communication while also promoting their organizational interests. This has led to frequent criticism of the strategic communication of scientific organizations (Marcinkowski and Kohring, 2014;Roberson, 2020). Research on how scientific organizations might address and overcome these challenges would be useful and would clearly profit from the integration of strategic communication and science communication approaches.…”

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“…The list of these phenomena is undoubtedly incomplete, but it underlines the vital role that organizations play in science communication and the occurrence of science communication in a variety of organizations. Against this backdrop, it is surprising to see that the nexus between science communication and its organizational contexts has not yet been extensively explored by scholars and that organizational communication has been dismissed by some science communication scholars, who have labeled it one-sided "propaganda" (for an overview of this debate, see Roberson, 2020).…”

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Communicating science in organizational contexts: toward an “organizational turn” in science communication research

Schäfer

Fähnrich

2020

JCOM

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PurposeResearch on science communication in organizational contexts is scarce – even though many cases can be found where organizations from science and beyond communicate about science-related issues, or where organizational contexts have an impact on the communication of individual scientists and scientific organizations. Therefore, it is time for an “organizational turn” in science communication research, and for more scholarly emphasis on the specific cases that science-related communication in, from and about organizations presents. Such an approximation would benefit both science communication research and analyses of strategic and organizational communication.Design/methodology/approachThis special issue of the “Journal of Communication Management” on “Communicating Science in Organizational Contexts” is a step in this direction: It compiles commentaries from leading scholars in the respective fields as well as research articles coming from various disciplines and conceptual as well as methodological paradigms. In the editorial, we assess overlaps between scholarship on science communication and strategic communication, respectively, based on a meta-analysis of journals in the field(s), develop a guiding heuristic for analyzing science communication in organizational settings, and introduce the contributions to the special issue.FindingsThe meta-analysis shows that overlaps between science communication research and scholarship on strategic communication are scarce. While organizations and their communication appear occasionally, and increasingly often, in science communication research, scholars of strategic communication only rarely analyze science communication.Research limitations/implicationsThe meta-analysis is limited to the publications of five scholarly journals over ten years. It still demonstrates the lack of research in the intersection of scholarship on science communication and strategic communication.Practical implicationsScientific organizations are rapidly extending and professionalizing their strategic communication, and an increasing number of organizations beyond science communicate on science or science-related issues. Understanding science communication in organizational settings, therefore, is crucial for practitioners in both areas.Originality/valueAnalyzing science communication in organizational settings is of increasing importance – yet few studies exist that have done it, and the respective research fields devote not much attention to one another. The special issue is a first foray into this new, intersectional field.

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On social change, agency, and public interest: what can science communication learn from public relations?

Cited by 11 publications

References 32 publications

The Impact of Students Assessing the Level of Difficulty Test Item on Interest and Motivation in Learning Mathematics

The Impact of Students Assessing the Level of Difficulty Test Item on Interest and Motivation in Learning Mathematics

Challenges in the collaboration between researchers and in-house communication professionals in the digital media landscape

Communicating science in organizational contexts: toward an “organizational turn” in science communication research

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