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The author of the textbook that this study was based on, Theory and Design in Counseling and Psychotherapy , was Susan X Day. She introduced me to the context of this study, and served as my research methodologist. Dr. Day had been my instructor for a course in qualitative research at the University of Houston where we first met and where she found out that I was studying instructional technology. She gave my name to the publisher and suggested that I be hired as the part-time telephone advisor to the instructors who had adopted Online Day. I was paid by the publisher, Lahaska Press, for my work teaching the instructors how to use the courseware. I received training in the software from staff at Houghton-Mifflin, the parent company of Lahaska, and talked periodically with the staff of Lahaska and the staff of Intellipro, the software company that created the courseware. Potential for conflict of interest was present due to these factors. However, several mitigating circumstances helped prevent the degree of researcher bias that would invalidate this study.
Since the findings were not supportive of the software package by Day, conflict of interest finally was not an issue.
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