ABSTRACT

In the first volume of Communication Research Measures: A Sourcebook (Rubin, Palmgreen, & Sypher, 1994), Pat Kearney and Michael Beatty (1994) reviewed almost 100 instructional measures that had been used in communication research and categorized them into five main themes: Learning outcomes, teacher behaviors and characteristics, student behaviors and characteristics, communication skills assessment, and measures of communication apprehension. In the past 10+ years, we have seen advances in all of these categories. To provide continuity with Volume I, I’ll review new and promising instructional measures in each of these categories as well as identify issues that have arisen over the years.