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Informational Interviewing: A Targeted Approach.
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Gaske, Paul C. – Communication Education, 1984
Describes an assignment that provides a field experience related to the career interests of students and also strengthens business-academic relationships. (PD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Career Exploration, College Students, Employment Opportunities
Telephone Interview Exercise Pleases Students and Profs
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Woodis, Ray – Journalism Educator, 1975
Descriptors: Assignments, Class Activities, Higher Education, Interviews
Teaching Interview Skills without Full-Fledged Interviewing: An Alternate Exercise.
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Young, Kathryn Sue; Bernum, Belinda A. – 2001
For an instructor who feels the need to teach interviewing skills in the basic course, it is sometimes difficult to fit interviewing into a course that already covers many types of public speaking. An activity is presented that allows instructors to teach interviewing skills in either a one or one-half week time frame (two 50-minute class periods…
Descriptors: Assignments, Communication Skills, Higher Education, Interviews
Oral History: A Window on the Past for Communication Students.
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Turner, Kathleen J. – Communication Education, 1985
Describes a media history assignment in which students interview older adults about changes they have observed in communication media. (PD)
Descriptors: Assignments, College Students, Higher Education, History
Co-Participant Perceptions of Information-Gathering Interviews: Implications for Teaching Interviewing Skills.
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Seibold, David R.; Meyers, Renee A. – Communication Education, 1985
Describes a feedback method for teaching interviewing skills that requires dual evaluation of a student's performance by both the student interviewer and the interviewee. Illustrates benefits of this method with an analysis of 139 paired assessments of students' information-gathering skills in a "career interview" assignment. (PD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Communication Research, Evaluation Methods, Feedback
Interviews Reveal How Officials Really Feel about Media.
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McGlashan, Zena Beth – Journalism Educator, 1980
Journalism students' interviews of public officials revealed the officials' attitudes toward the press while giving students needed practical experience. (RL)
Descriptors: Assignments, Attitudes, Higher Education, Interviews
Teaching Sexuality: A Model for Parental Involvement.
Brennan, Joseph T. – Momentum, 1981
The author assigned students in his high school religion course to interview their parents and other Catholic adults about sex, love, and marriage. He discusses the benefits of this interview format in promoting adult/child communication about sexuality. (SJL)
Descriptors: Assignments, Catholics, Communication (Thought Transfer), High Schools
First-Year Sociology: The Importance of Theory.
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Hale, Sylvia – Teaching Sociology, 1995
States that an important goal of introductory college sociology courses is to make the discipline come alive for students and to encourage active involvement in learning. Describes a student project approach in which students interview three people and analyze the data relevant to four theoretical perspectives. (CFR)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Assignments, Course Content, Course Descriptions
The Assignment that Triggered Change: Assessment and the Relational Learning Model for Generic Capabilities
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Edwards, Sylvia Lauretta; Bruce, Christine Susan – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2004
In a context where changes in conceptions or experiences associated with learning generic skills is a desirable learning outcome, how can assessment instruments be designed to bring about the desired changes? In this paper we show how understanding the variation in students' experience of learning a specific generic capability represents the first…
Descriptors: Internet, Search Strategies, Student Experience, Evaluation Methods