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Peer reviewedStoddart, Kenneth – Teaching Sociology, 1987
Notes that one-semester field methods courses in sociology often lack adequate time for students to learn appropriate techniques and still collect and report their data. Describes how undergraduate students bypass this problem by using multiple observations of a single event to quickly form a corpus of ethnographic data. (JDH)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Ethnography, Field Studies, Higher Education
Peer reviewedOxlade, E. L.; Clifford, P. E. – Journal of Biological Education, 1981
Described are some experiments on geotropism that may be done using dandelions. (PB)
Descriptors: Botany, College Science, Field Studies, Higher Education
Peer reviewedLuchterhand, Elmer; Weller, Leonard – Adolescence, 1979
This paper describes procedures that resulted in a 90 percent return in a random sample survey of inner-city youth. Included are: selection of interview sites; recordkeeping; call-backs; techniques for dealing with reluctant interviewees; and composition of interview teams, including sex and ethnic matching with sample members. (SJL)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Disadvantaged Youth, Field Interviews, Field Studies
