The manual provides vocational educators with information and guidelines regarding the design and use of questionnaires and interviews for gathering data and the construction, tabulation, and analysis of both open ended and forced response survey instruments. The first of nine chapters deals with surveys as a data collection technique, discusses…

This booklet is intended to serve as a step-by-step layman's guide to conducting a community survey, tabulating the findings of the survey, and presenting a final report of the survey findings. It is written in simple nontechnical language and contains numerous examples of various survey forms and procedures. Among the major topics discussed are:…

This bulletin for the researcher, the doctoral or master's candidate, or teacher interested in and/or conducting research is intended to (1) alert novice investigators to the major requirements and pitfalls of survey and experimental research, (2) point out the weaknesses of past business education studies, and (3) provide consumers of research…