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Camp, Cameron J.; Brookover, Cecile – Educational Gerontology, 1997
Students in an experimental research design course were trained in survey research and gerontology by interviewing older adults, keeping a journal, completing statistical analysis and research reporting exercises, and presenting conference-style poster sessions. (SK)
Descriptors: Gerontology, Higher Education, Older Adults, Research Methodology
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Piper, Terry D. – NASPA Journal, 1988
Discusses difficulties faced by student services professionals when conducting assessments and evaluations. Demonstrates the applicability of telephone surveys to meet assessment and evaluation data collection needs, comparing telephone surveying to traditional data collection techniques. Outlines steps in telephone survey planning. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Needs Assessment
Zarebski, John; Moriarty, Dick – 1978
The trends and changes occurring in Windsor District 5 Little League Baseball between 1971 and 1978 were closely monitored in order for researchers to discern the results of Sports Institute for Research/Change Agent Research (SIR/CAR) intervention in these programs. Comparisons of the 1972, 1976, and 1978 studies reveal that the values focus of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Athletics, Baseball, Change Agents
Knutson, Debra S; And Others – 1995
This paper considers students' attitudes toward research and writing about research and discusses methods used to help students overcome their largely negative attitudes toward research. The paper first states that at Illinois State University in Normal, the course that follows freshman composition is one on academic discourse. The paper reports…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Ethnography, Expository Writing, Higher Education