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Sigman, Stuart J. – Communication Education, 1985
Discusses assignments in discourse analysis and students' recurring methodological errors. (PD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Communication Research, Course Descriptions, Discourse Analysis
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Bantz, Charles R.; Smith, David H. – Communication Monographs, 1977
Summarizes Karl Weick's Model of Organizing including its advantages and limitations and tests one of the claims fundamental to Weick's argument. (MH)
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, Higher Education, Interaction Process Analysis
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Bernard, H. Russell; Killworth, Peter D. – Human Communication Research, 1977
Repeats an earlier study by the authors concerning informants' ability to report their communication accurately and confirms results indicating that people do not know those with whom they communicate. Expands the original experimental design and offers recommendations for future research. (MH)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education
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Lowry, Dennis T. – Journalism Quarterly, 1978
Reports on a study designed to determine the proportion of the communication research studies published in seven journals in the 1970s that obtained their data from, and based their conclusions upon, student populations in general and undergraduate college student populations in particular. (GW)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Research
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Bochner, Art – Human Communication Research, 1978
Surveys some of the persistent difficulties hampering progress in the area of interpersonal communication inquiry and notes existing opportunities for advancing communication research. (MH)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Conceptual Schemes, Higher Education, Interaction Process Analysis
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Glaser, James M. – PS: Political Science and Politics, 1996
Analyzes some of the mistakes made and the lessons learned doing participant-observation research on six special congressional elections. Briefly describes seven of these lessons including schedule strategically, get multiple perspectives, do not overlook details, be a pack rat, and recognizing that some goals and processes are antithetical. (MJP)
Descriptors: Field Studies, Higher Education, Interaction Process Analysis, Naturalistic Observation
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Wilson, Holly Skodol; Hutchinson, Sally A. – Qualitative Health Research, 1991
Proposes the triangulation of two qualitative research methods, hermeneutics and grounded theory, to illuminate clinical realities that elude alternative approaches. Discusses how hermeneutics reveals perceptual information about the uniqueness of shared meanings and common practices, and how grounded theory provides a conceptual framework useful…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Data Interpretation, Hermeneutics, Higher Education
Kruskal, William, Ed. – 1970
This book, one of a series prepared in connection with the Behavioral and Social Sciences Survey (BASS) conducted between 1967 and 1969, deals with problems of statistics, mathematics, and computation as they related to the social sciences. Chapter 1 shows how these subjects help in their own ways for studying learning behavior with irregular…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Computation, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing