This article describes an effort to identify and to cluster considerable numbers of completed
education-based studies around a set of 26 knowledge diffusion/utilization generalizations,
which are drawn from and supported by the work of sociologists, anthropologists, and other
communication research specialists. The authors are able to report parallel outcomes between
the education and other collective research traditions in most instances. These results suggest
that the educational communication research tradition is not unlike traditions evolving in other
communication disciplines insofar as linkage phenomena are concerned.
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