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Vonkova, Hana; Hrabak, Jan; Kralova, Katerina; Papajoanu, Ondrej – Field Methods, 2021
Self-assessment measures are commonly used in questionnaire surveys. However, one of the problems with self-reports is that they may be prone to differences in scale usage among respondents. The anchoring vignette method addresses this issue. It relies on two assumptions: response consistency and vignette equivalence. Here we aim to develop a…
Descriptors: Vignettes, Interviews, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Reliability
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Aboagye, Emmanuel; Yawson, Joseph Anthony – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
The present study examined the perception of teachers of the new educational curriculum in Ghana. Responses from six teachers interviewed were developed into a questionnaire and posted on the websites of teacher unions via WhatsApp. In all, 74 teachers responded. From the study teachers perceived that the new curriculum is important as it will…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Curriculum Implementation, Interviews
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Jackson, Michael; Diliberti, Melissa; Kemp, Jana; Hummel, Steven; Cox, Christina; Gbondo-Tugbawa, Komba; Simon, Dillon – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
The School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) is managed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) within the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. SSOCS collects extensive crime and safety data from principals and administrators of public schools in the United States. Data from this collection can be…
Descriptors: School Surveys, Crime, School Safety, Public Schools
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Olson, Kate; Lannan, Katie; Cumming, John; MacGillivary, Heather; Richards, Kevin – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2020
Many school districts utilize a strategic plan to implement their district vision to accomplish goals important to their students, stakeholders, and community at-large. Often, however, school districts use student outcome data as the main success indicator of their strategic plan. This summative approach fails to capture interim successes, cannot…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, School Districts, Program Implementation, Suburban Schools
Public Policy Institute of California, 2021
The PPIC Statewide Survey was inaugurated in 1998 to provide a way for Californians to express their views on important public policy issues. The survey provides timely, relevant, nonpartisan information on Californians' political, social, and economic opinions. It seeks to inform and improve state policymaking, raise awareness, and encourage…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Research Design, Sample Size, Data Collection
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Djerasimovic, Sanja – European Journal of Higher Education, 2021
As universities are undergoing transformations produced by trends towards marketisation, massification, new public management, and 'third mission' of socio-economic impact, higher education (HE) researchers are increasingly concerned with the implications of the HE sector change on academic practice, professional identities, and even wellbeing.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Professional Identity, Well Being, Diaries
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Wilson, Nathan J.; Chen, Yu-Wei; Mahoney, Natasha; Buchanan, Angus; Marks, Anne; Cordier, Reinie – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Background: Experiences of people with intellectual disability are often reported by proxy, excluding the person's own perception. To assist people with intellectual disabilities ability to communicate their own experiences, the current study explored the feasibility, reliability and validity of experience sampling methods (ESMs) for people with…
Descriptors: Sampling, Experience, Adults, Intellectual Disability
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Blasius, Jörg – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2018
Purpose: Evidence from past surveys suggests that some interviewees simplify their responses even in very well-organized and highly respected surveys. This paper aims to demonstrate that some interviewers, too, simplify their task by at least partly fabricating their data, and that, in some survey research institutes, employees simplify their task…
Descriptors: Interviews, Data, Deception, Foreign Countries
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Gummer, Tobias; Blumenstiel, Jan Eric – Field Methods, 2018
To reduce nonresponse bias in surveys, it has been suggested that researchers allocate additional fieldwork efforts to cases with low estimated response propensity. If these efforts are successful, nonresponse bias may be reduced by changing the variance of response propensities and hence the covariance between response propensities and variables…
Descriptors: Bias, Field Studies, Interviews, Response Rates (Questionnaires)
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Kappelhof, Johannes W. S.; De Leeuw, Edith D. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2019
This study investigates the impact of different modes and tailor-made response enhancing measures (TMREM)--such as bilingual interviewers with a shared ethnic background and translated questionnaires--on the measurement of substantive variables in surveys among minority ethnic groups in the Netherlands. It also provides insight into the ability to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Ethnic Groups, Computation
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Blown, Eric J.; Bryce, Tom G. K. – Research in Science Education, 2022
This paper provides a historical review of the interview research that has been used by science educators to investigate children's basic astronomy knowledge. A wide range of strategies have been developed over the last 120 years or so as successive teams of researchers have endeavoured to overcome the methodological difficulties that have arisen.…
Descriptors: Interviews, Research Methodology, Science Education, Science Teachers
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DeBell, Matthew; Krosnick, Jon A.; Gera, Katie; Yeager, David S.; McDonald, Michael P. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2020
Postelection surveys regularly overestimate voter turnout by 10 points or more. This article provides the first comprehensive documentation of the turnout gap in three major ongoing surveys (the General Social Survey, Current Population Survey, and American National Election Studies), evaluates explanations for it, interprets its significance, and…
Descriptors: Voting, National Surveys, Elections, Computation
Patillo, Ericka J. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The academic library middle manager (ALMM) role is little understood and understudied. Using Organizational Role Theory, Middle Managers' Four Strategic Roles, and the Taxonomy of Managerial Performance Requirements as frameworks, this study was designed to identify and describe the expectations of the middle manager role in academic libraries; to…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Administrator Role, Academic Libraries, Middle Management
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van Wijk, Nikil; de Leeuw, Edith; de Bruijn, Jeanne – Field Methods, 2015
To collect reliable statistical data on domestic violence in Curaçao, we conducted a large-scale quantitative study (n = 816). To meet with the special needs of the population and topic, we designed a tailored mixed-mode survey to assess the prevalence of domestic violence in Curaçao and its health consequences. Great care was taken to reduce…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Violence, Surveys, Statistical Data
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Hadi, Samsul; Andrian, Dedek; Kartowagiran, Badrun – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Purpose: The impact of decentralization on education systems requires the local government to develop local content curriculum to preserve regional characteristics and local uniqueness through education. Practice in the field revealed problems in terms of implementation so that the development of an evaluation model in accordance with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Vocational Education, Evaluation Methods
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