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Skindrud, Karlton D. – 1972
Twenty-eight mature women were recruited from the community and trained in a 21 category observation code of family interaction. Observers were assigned randomly to three experimental groups and given different expectancy rationales about the outcomes of the studies for which they would be collecting data. All groups were told they would be…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Bias, Conceptual Schemes, Control Groups
Persico, Christine; Heaney, Thomas W. – 1986
The practice of interviewing individuals rather than groups has been based largely upon methodological concerns for preventing contamination of data. The assumptions that (1) the data provided by individuals can, in aggregate, yield social truth; (2) individuals are conscious of social phenomena; and (3) the whole of social reality is equal to the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Females, Group Behavior