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Direct linkYajuan Si; Roderick J. A. Little; Ya Mo; Nell Sedransk – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2023
Nonresponse bias is a widely prevalent problem for data on education. We develop a ten-step exemplar to guide nonresponse bias analysis (NRBA) in cross-sectional studies and apply these steps to the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-2011. A key step is the construction of indices of nonresponse bias based on proxy…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Response Rates (Questionnaires), Bias, Children
Irina Bauer; Tanja Kunz; Tobias Gummer – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2025
In web surveys, no interviewer is present to clarify question comprehension problems, which can be particularly prevalent among respondents with low literacy skills. Although plain language is used in various contexts to improve text comprehensibility, its use in social science questionnaires has not been investigated to date. Using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Surveys, Data Collection, Questionnaires
Dey, Michelle; Marti, Laurent; Helbling, Laura Alexandra; Jorm, Anthony Francis – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
Response rates in epidemiological studies have generally been decreasing over the past decades. However, when the target group consists of adolescents and young adults, school-based surveys have hitherto been able to mitigate this problem: This age group can be reached relatively easy in the school context (e.g., as compared to reaching them by…
Descriptors: Response Rates (Questionnaires), Student Surveys, Epidemiology, Predictor Variables
Hsieh, Shu-Hui; Lee, Shen-Ming; Li, Chin-Shang – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
Surveys of income are complicated by the sensitive nature of the topic. The problem researchers face is how to encourage participants to respond and to provide truthful responses in surveys. To correct biases induced by nonresponse or underreporting, we propose a two-stage multilevel randomized response (MRR) technique to investigate the true…
Descriptors: Income, Surveys, Response Rates (Questionnaires), Response Style (Tests)
Adam B. Wilson; William S. Brooks; Danielle N. Edwards; Jill Deaver; Jessica A. Surd; Obadiah J. Pirlo; William A. Byrd; Edgar R. Meyer; Amy Beresheim; Stephanie L. Cuskey; Jack G. Tsintolas; Eric S. Norrell; Harriet C. Fisher; Christopher W. Skaggs; Dmytro Mysak; Samantha R. Levin; Carlos E. Escutia Rosas; Andrew S. Cale; Md Nazmul Karim; Jenna Pollock; Nicholas J. Kakos; Monica S. O'Brien; Rebecca S. Lufler – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Growth in the online survey market may be increasing response burden and possibly jeopardizing higher response rates. This meta-analysis evaluated survey trends over one decade (2011-2020) to determine: (1) changes in survey publication rates over time, (2) changes in response rates over time, (3) typical response rates within health sciences…
Descriptors: Online Surveys, Response Rates (Questionnaires), Health Sciences, Educational Research
Keanen M. McKinley – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2024
In this qualitative study, I worked with international students to understand how researchers can increase response rates to international student experience surveys. I explicitly framed international students as a potentially vulnerable and hard-to-reach population, and then considered barriers associated with vulnerable populations and research…
Descriptors: Response Rates (Questionnaires), Student Surveys, Feedback (Response), College Students
Jonas Elis; Achim Goerres; Sabrina J. Mayer; Dennis C. Spies – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
For hard-to-survey populations such as ethnic minorities and immigrants, increasing survey response rates is a crucial element of the fieldwork as these populations often show a higher likelihood of not participating compared with the native population. However, no study has so far compared different strategies for mobilisation within this group.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elections, College Students, Mail Surveys
Overcoming the Challenges of Recruiting Apartment Residents for Case Study Research: A Research Note
Thompson, Sian E. L. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2023
A growing number of people live in apartments worldwide, and research into these contexts is key to the success of our cities. Recruiting apartment residents as research participants can be challenging, however, especially when using a case study approach. This research note outlines the participant recruitment method developed for case study…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Housing, Case Studies, Research Methodology
Axinn, William G.; Wagner, James; Couper, Mick; Crawford, Scott – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Responsive survey design is a technique aimed at improving the efficiency or quality of surveys by using incoming data from the field to make design changes. The technique was pioneered on large national surveys, but the tools can also be applied on the smaller-scale surveys most commonly used by sociologists. We demonstrate responsive survey…
Descriptors: Surveys, Sexual Abuse, Research Design, Response Rates (Questionnaires)
de Rada, Vidal Díaz – Field Methods, 2022
This article presents the results of a general population study that used three different modes of data collection administered sequentially. The study began with a letter that contained the link to an online survey. Those who did not respond were interviewed by phone or face-to-face. The article focuses on the cost of the study related to…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Sequential Approach, Online Surveys, Interviews
Daniel Sullivan; Richard Lakeman; Debbie Massey; Dima Nasrawi; Marion Tower; Megan Lee – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
Several times each year the teaching performance of academics at higher education institutions are evaluated through anonymous, online student evaluation of teaching (SET) surveys. Universities use SETs to inform decisions about staff promotion and tenure, but low student participation levels make the surveys impractical for this use. This scoping…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Response Rates (Questionnaires)
Orsola Torrisi; Jethro Banda; Georges Reniers; Stéphane Helleringer – Field Methods, 2024
Guidelines for conducting surveys by mobile phone calls in low- and middle-income countries suggest keeping interviews short (<20 minutes). The evidence supporting this recommendation is scant, even though limiting interview duration might reduce the amount of data generated by such surveys. We recruited nearly 2,500 mobile phone users in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Interviews, Telephone Surveys
Ashani Jayasekera; Laura Stapleton – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: A growing number of surveys are conducted online where respondents can choose to complete the questionnaire (Lehdonvirta et al., 2020). As respondents are self-selected, there is potential that the respondents will not be an accurate representation of the population. For example, white people are disproportionately more likely to…
Descriptors: Online Surveys, Test Construction, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Stenger, Rachel; Olson, Kristen; Smyth, Jolene D. – Field Methods, 2023
Questionnaire designers use readability measures to ensure that questions can be understood by the target population. The most common measure is the Flesch-Kincaid Grade level, but other formulas exist. This article compares six different readability measures across 150 questions in a self-administered questionnaire, finding notable variation in…
Descriptors: Readability, Readability Formulas, Computer Assisted Testing, Evaluation Methods
Larsen, Alexandra; Cedergren, Anders – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: The purpose of this study was to establish the response rate of first-time college students to a vaccination records request, and to obtain student vaccination rates for selected vaccines. Participants: Student health records for the fall 2018 cohort of first-time college students were reviewed. Methods: Vaccination and response rates…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Immunization Programs, Student Records, Health
