Directory of Communication Related Mental Measures

Jason Wrench, Doreen Jowi, and Alan Goodboy have coauthored a new directory of over 500 mental measures published in communication journals. This new volume has been written for the National Communication Association's Non-Serial Publications Series and should be available Summer 2010 for purchase. More...


CommuniCast

Jason Wrench has initiated the field's first branded podcast series, CommuniCast. CommuniCast are interviews with the top scholars in communication today. More...

Podcast Lectures


The following are four lectures that correspond with chapters from Dr. Wrench's text Quantitative Research Methods for Communication: A Hands-On Approach. To save files on your hard drive, right click on the desired hyperlink and select "Save Link As."

Lecture 1 - Historical Foundations of Social Sciences & What is Communication?

Lecture 2 - The Scientific Method

Lecture 3 - Ethics for Researchers

Lecture 4 - Variables

Lecture 5 - Communication Variables

Lecture 6 - Measurement 

Lecture 7 - Reliability & Validity

Lecture 8 - Sampling

Lecture 9 - Presenting Research