Metasynthesis in communication research: synthesizing the past to aid the future.

Autor: LeFebvre, Leah E., LeFebvre, Luke
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Zdroj: Communication Education; Apr2023, Vol. 72 Issue 2, p200-203, 4p
Abstrakt: This method allows researchers to generate comprehensive and substantive claims beyond those that are contributed from individual qualitative studies by considering them in aggregate (Thorne, [10]). We conducted a comprehensive content analysis of I Communication Education i in order to determine the type of article and its subsequent methodology (if an original article) in an effort to make an argument for greater appreciation and inclusion of metasynthesis in instructional communication scholarship.[1] Articles published in I Communication Education i between January 2012 and May 2022 were analyzed as the unit of analysis similar to Conley and Yun ([2]). Quantitative methodologies have predominated the methods used by communication researchers who published in I Communication Education i . [Extracted from the article]
Databáze: Complementary Index