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Kana Grace; Anna Remington; Jade Davies; Laura Crane – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Several measures have been developed to assess loneliness in the general population. Here, we examined if, and how accurately, widely-used measures capture the experience of loneliness in autistic adults. A total of 203 autistic participants from the UK completed an online survey, which included two widely-used loneliness questionnaires: the…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Psychological Patterns, Affective Measures
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Sturgis, Patrick; Luff, Rebekah – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2021
We assess the case for a decline in the use of survey data in the social sciences during a period in which conventional survey research has faced existential challenges to its ongoing feasibility and growing competition from new forms of 'Big Data'. Presser (1983) and Converse (1987) undertook content analysis of articles published in a set of…
Descriptors: Surveys, Social Science Research, Data Use, Trend Analysis
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Conrad, Frederick G.; Schober, Michael F. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2021
Survey interviews are conducted to produce objective, accurate information in which interviewers ask questions as worded and their discretionary speech is carefully managed. To limit interviewer influence over answers and reduce between-interviewer variance, Standardized Interviewing (SI) requires interviewers to administer "nondirective…
Descriptors: Interviews, Language Usage, Questioning Techniques, Structured Interviews
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Waters, Stewart; Hensley, Matt – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2020
Social studies teacher educators represent a small subset of higher education faculty in the United States. However, within this small subset exist a great deal of diversity in terms of habits and preferences of social studies educators. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the types of research studies most commonly being…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Teacher Surveys, Social Studies, Teacher Educators
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Zhang, Qiannan; Lin, Sheng; Liu, Jinlan; Zhang, Jingyi – College Teaching, 2022
The development of undergraduate students' soft skills is crucial because their chances to satisfactorily deal with the demands of various environments and interlocutors increases with the development of their soft skills. Based on the achievement goal theory, this study aimed to examine the role of the school environment in fostering students'…
Descriptors: College Environment, Soft Skills, Goal Orientation, Undergraduate Students
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Natalie Steel Royston; Jill Wilson – Visions of Research in Music Education, 2022
The assessment of student dispositions is an important part of teacher preparation programs in the United States. To explore the beliefs and perceptions of in-service educators and teacher education students, we used a researcher-designed survey to examine responses of three groups: a) in-service music educators, b) collegiate music education…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Music Education, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Educators
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Munirah Alajmi – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2025
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the influence of school principals' effective communication and teachers' trust in principals on schools' organisational mindfulness from the perspective of public school teachers in Kuwait. Design/methodology/approach: The study used a cross-sectional research design. A quantitative survey questionnaire was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Metacognition, Public School Teachers
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Stark, Kristabel; Bettini, Elizabeth; Cumming, Michelle; O'Brien, Kristen Merrill; Brunsting, Nelson; Huggins-Manley, Corinne; Binkert, Gino; Shaheen, Tashnuva – Remedial and Special Education, 2023
Special education teachers' (SETs) working conditions play a crucial role in shaping the size, quality, and effectiveness of the U.S. SET workforce and thereby shape the quality of instruction provided to students with disabilities. Valid measures of SETs' working conditions are essential for conducting robust research on how to improve working…
Descriptors: Special Education, Teaching Conditions, Special Education Teachers, Students with Disabilities
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Bowker, Julie C.; Sette, Stefania; Ooi, Laura L.; Bayram-Ozdemir, Sevgi; Braathu, Nora; Bølstad, Evalill; Castillo, Karen Noel; Dogan, Aysun; Greco, Carolina; Kamble, Shanmukh; Kim, Hyoun K.; Kim, Yunhee; Liu, Junsheng; Oh, Wonjung; Rapee, Ronald M.; Wong, Quincy J. J.; Xiao, Bowen; Zuffianò, Antonio; Coplan, Robert J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
The goal of this study was to evaluate the measurement invariance of an adapted assessment of motivations for social withdrawal ("Social Preference Scale--Revised"; SPS-R) across cultural contexts and explore associations with loneliness. Participants were a large sample of university students (N = 4,397; M[subscript age] = 20.08 years,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Withdrawal (Psychology), Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Zeng, Lily Min; Fryer, Luke K.; Zhao, Yue – Higher Education Quarterly, 2023
Higher education's rapid expansion is paired with growing social expectations of its benefits and concern on its teaching quality. In response to these, institutional/national surveys based on an array of theories are widely used in universities for quality assurance, enhancement, and benchmarking. This paper reviews three major types of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Quality Assurance, Surveys
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Kennedy, Jeffrey; Pek, Simon – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Meaningful student participation is essential to realizing democratic ideals within the university. However, existing structures for involving students within university governance suffer from a variety of shortcomings, leaving scholars calling for ways to make student participation more inclusive, effective, and thoughtful. To address this…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Participation, Participative Decision Making, Governance
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Whitaker, Stephan D. – Education Economics, 2023
Using the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY), this article examines the influence of a region's industrial composition on the educational attainment of children raised by parents who do not have college degrees. The NLSY's geo-coded panel allows for precise measurements of the local industries that shaped the parents' employment…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Parent Background, Social Mobility, Children
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Narjis, Ghulam; Shabbir, Javid – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
The randomized response technique (RRT) is an effective method designed to obtain the stigmatized information from respondents while assuring the privacy. In this study, we propose a new two-stage RRT model to estimate the prevalence of sensitive attribute ([pi]). A simulation study shows that the empirical mean and variance of proposed estimator…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Incidence, Efficiency, Models
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Laundon, Melinda; Cunningham, Samuel; Cathcart, Abby – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2023
Teaching evaluation is deeply entrenched in institutional quality assurance and is a feature of a range of policies including academic recruitment, promotion, and performance management. Universities must ensure that evaluation practices meet regulatory requirements, while balancing student voice and wellbeing. There is extensive literature…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Educational Strategies, Educational Practices
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Daphne Wiles; Anna Morrison; Julie Smart; Luke Bennett; Scott Peters – Online Learning, 2023
The purpose of the current study was to develop and validate the Online Teaching Motivation Scale (OTMS), a survey instrument designed to reliably measure motivational constructs related to online teaching and learning. The widespread prevalence of online and hybrid teaching modalities, many established during the COVID-19 pandemic, has…
Descriptors: Surveys, Teacher Motivation, Electronic Learning, Teacher Attitudes
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