[Air-L] Missing Data in Qualitative and Online Research

[Murray Turoff]

I know i have expressed this in past papers but their has not been enough
work in the area of comparing the distribution of types of communication
units in various types of group discussions online vs. normal face to face
group discussions.
The first controlled experiment comparing the two using Bales coding showed
very significant differences.   There are a tremendous number of online
discussions that it would be interesting to analyze including online courses
which has never been done.   i suspect just looking at what the instructor
said in these discussions vs. whether they had high or low ratings by the
class would be a significant result.
All types of problem solving discussions are also of interest and
information exchange discussions as well.

Here are the full reports from roxanne's original experiments with far more
detail then ever appeared in teh journal article.
this is from the following njit library location

http://library.njit.edu/archives/cccc-materials/index.php

RR#12 Face-to-face vs. computerized conferences : a controlled experiment,
Volume I: Findings<http://archives.njit.edu/vol01/cccc-materials/njit-cccc-rr-012/njit-cccc-rr-012.pdf>
Aug.
1980 Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Kenneth Johnson, Charles Aronovitch, Murray
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     end_of_the_skype_highlighting  RR#12a Face-to-face vs. computerized
conferences : a controlled experiment, Volume II: Methodological
Appendices<http://archives.njit.edu/vol01/cccc-materials/njit-cccc-rr-012a/njit-cccc-rr-012a.pdf>
Aug.
1980 Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Kenneth Johnson, Charles Aronovitch, Murray
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Information Systems, NJIT
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