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Response rates, response time, and costs of mail and electronic surveys were compared. The survey sample consisted of college faculty in the southeastern United States. Mail surveys yielded a higher response rate and a lower rate of unde-liverable surveys. However, receipt of responses was significantly quicker for those delivered electronically, with over 80% of initial responses arriving before receipt of the 1st returned mail survey. The costs associated with distribution of surveys and preparation of data for analysis were much lower with the electronically delivered surveys. 相似文献
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Mail surveys are frequently used in higher education research as a means of collecting data relevant for college decision makers. Despite their prevalence, mail surveys have drawbacks, chief among them the potential for low response rates, which may compromise the credibility of research results and diminish their usefulness. Therefore, it is important for institutional researchers to plan and conduct mail surveys that achieve optimal response rates, especially in populations (i.e., alumni) where low response rates may be a problem. This research tested the effect of the survey procedures suggested by Dillman's (1978) Total Design Method on response rate to a mail survey of two-year college alumni. The method used was an experiment with four groups that varied in their degree of adherence to Dillman's procedures, i.e., amount of follow-up and degree of personalized approach. Subjects were randomly assigned to groups. Results provided a test of Dillman's techniques in an educational setting, further information for institutional researchers about ways to improve response rates, and an analysis of the costs and benefits of using Dillman's methods. 相似文献
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Jerold S. Laguilles Elizabeth A. Williams Daniel B. Saunders 《Research in higher education》2011,52(5):537-553
Institutions of higher education rely on student surveys for a number of purposes, including planning, assessment, and research.
Web surveys are especially prevalent given their ease of use and low-cost; yet, obtaining a high response rate is a challenge.
Although researchers have investigated the use of incentives in traditional mail surveys, studies investigating the impact
of lottery incentives on web survey response rates are limited. In this study, four separate web survey experiments were conducted
to measure the effectiveness of lottery-based incentives in a college student population in the United States. Findings reveal
that the lottery incentives not only positively impacted response rates but also exerted differential effects by gender. The
results have practical implications for higher education researchers who conduct web surveys of college students. 相似文献
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Linda J. Sax Shannon K. Gilmartin Jenny J. Lee Linda Serra Hagedorn 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(9):712-729
This study was designed to examine response rates and bias among a sample of community college students who received a district-wide survey by standard mail or e-mail. Findings suggest that predictors of response and types of responses are not appreciably different across paper and online mail-out samples when these samples are “matched” in terms of key demographics. Rates of response, however, differ by mode of survey administration, gender, and race/ethnicity. 相似文献
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What causes a student to participate in a survey? This paper looks at participation across multiple surveys to understand survey non-response; by using multiple surveys we minimize the impact of survey salience. Students at a selective liberal arts college were administered four different surveys throughout the 2002–2003 academic year, and we use the number of surveys participated in to understand how student characteristics such as demographics, engagement and Holland personality type affect cooperation. We find that survey respondents are more likely to be female and socially engaged, less likely to be on financial aid, more likely to be an investigative personality type and less likely to be an enterprising personality type. 相似文献
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This study uses college student survey data and corresponding administrative data on campus recreation facility usage, academic performance, physical education class attendance, and co-curricular participation to examine nonresponse bias in college student surveys. Within the context of the Groves (Public Opin Q 70:646–675, 2006) Alternative Cause Model, we found compelling evidence of the presence of nonresponse error observed as student characteristics related to the survey topic that also explain their response propensity. An individual’s survey response propensity has a statistically significant relationship with their actual behavior for 2 of 3 survey topics. In 11 of the 13 survey questions used to measure the survey topic behaviors, we found statistically significant differences between the respondent and nonrespondent behavioral measures. These findings hold important implications for survey researchers and those using student surveys for high-stakes accountability measures because survey summary statistics may not be generalizable to the target population.
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《Journal of Marketing for HIGHER EDUCATION》2013,23(1):89-106
This article discusses two studies in which different methods were used to try to improve the undergraduate student response rate to mail surveys. The first study showed that students receiving raffle tickets with their surveys were more likely to respond than those receiving no raffle ticketes; however, the differences were statistically significant only for students living in residence halls on campus (i.e., freshman and sophmores) and not for those living off-campus. The second study showed that nonrespondents who were telephoned before the second mailing of a questionnaire were much more likely to respond than those nonrespondents who were not called. 相似文献
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This study compared the attitudes and demographic characteristics of an intact group of college freshmen to those of a sample responding to a mail survey and a sample responding to a telephone follow-up. Contrary to expectation, the three samples did not differ significantly in mean attitude responses. The absence of significant mean differences indicated no significant bias in college freshmen's responses to a mail survey. However, a higher percentage of returns was received from females and higher achievers than from males and low achievers. 相似文献
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Because virtually all published research on the effect of a monetary gratuity has been in the context of public opinion polling or market research by sampling nonprofessional populations, a randomized experiment was conducted in a mail survey of 507 professional school and public librarians. A random half (Group E) had $1.00 attached as a small token of appreciation for their cooperation. The conventional questionnaire methodology was employed for Group C. In the initial mailing, the gratuity had a powerful influence on the rate of return—80% vs. 59%. Indeed, the response rate with the gratuity for the first mailing (80%) was higher than that obtained for Group C with two mailings (74%). (No gratuity was included for either group in the second mailing.) The return rate for Group E increased to 86% following the second mailing, an unusually high return rate for a mail survey even among professional populations. Even though professional populations typically have much higher response rates than the general population, a $1.00 gratuity can have a substantial effect on increasing the return rate and, consequently, can strengthen the external validity of survey findings. 相似文献
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已有众多研究基于人格特质理论和经验学习理论,揭示了志愿服务参与和大学生非认知能力存在双向因果关系。本文基于湖南省高校大学生发展追踪调查数据,采用双重差分法检验志愿服务参与和非认知能力的因果关系,以揭示志愿服务参与究竟是筛选还是培育了大学生的非认知能力。研究结果证实了志愿服务参与对外向性和尽责性有筛选作用,对宜人性有培育作用,对情绪稳定性和开放性既没有筛选作用,也没有培育作用。这些结果表明高校志愿服务主要通过人格特质机制筛选了学生的非认知能力,对非认知能力的培育作用有限,促使我们重新审视高校志愿服务如何发挥实践育人的功能。 相似文献
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Pu-Shih Daniel Chen 《Research in higher education》2011,52(7):659-674
Although many studies have addressed the issue of response quality in survey studies, few have looked specifically at low-quality
survey responses in surveys of college students. As students receive more and more survey requests, it is inevitable that
some of them will provide low-quality responses to important campus surveys and institutional accountability measures. This
study proposes a strategy for uncovering low-quality survey responses and describes how they may affect intercampus accountability
measures. The results show that survey response quality does have an effect on intercampus accountability measures, and that
certain individual and circumstantial factors may increase the likelihood of low-quality responses. Implications for researchers
and higher education administrators are discussed. 相似文献
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Karen A. Conklin 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(4):423-433
The rise to prominence of surveys by telephone has been attributed to advances in telephone technology, improvement of telephone research procedures, near complete accessibility of any population via the telephone, expansion of a survey industry that requires quality data generated in an efficient and timely manner for eager clients, and availability of considerable information, based on experiment and experience, on what techniques work or do not work when doing telephone surveys. This article details 10 years of experience with telephone survey methodology utilized at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) to collect data from business and industry, former students, and individuals residing in JCCC's service area. Of particular interest to community college researchers are the results of comparisons between mail survey respondents and nonrespondents who were later telephoned for an interview. These comparisons were conducted on results of annual studies of JCCC's career program completers. Although nonrespondents tended to be younger and more often male than female, there were no notable differences in the level of success and satisfaction reported. 相似文献
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《The Internet and Higher Education》2006,9(3):217-227
Electronic mail (e-mail) is an extremely important medium for Internet-based education. Due to its unique characteristics, there is reason to be concerned that students do not put appropriate care into writing messages that are sent via e-mail. This has significant implications for the effectiveness of online learning environments. This paper describes an empirical research project to investigate the amount of thought students put into e-mail communication versus traditional face-to-face communication. A survey was administered to 596 undergraduates. The results of this survey indicate that students put significantly more thought into e-mail communication with the instructor and groups of peers than they do for equivalent face-to-face communication. At the same time, students tend to put about the same amount of thought into e-mail compared to verbal communication with individual peers. Finally, the research uncovered some interesting patterns concerning student gender and technology comfort as predictors of thought put into e-mail communication. 相似文献
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本研究运用大学毕业生调查数据,比较分析了当前本科、专科毕业生就业中的教育与工作匹配状况、影响因素、工资效应等方面的差异.研究发现:超过四成高职高专毕业生的教育与工作不匹配;教育与工作匹配性在两类大学毕业生之间存在显著差异,普通本科生的匹配性明显高于高职高专生;教育与工作匹配性还受到性别、专业以及实习经历等因素的显著影响;教育与工作不匹配给两类毕业生均带来工资效应,但两者的差异并不显著. 相似文献
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Jacques du Toit 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2016,41(4):560-574
The 2010 Western Cape graduate destination survey utilised a sequential mixed-mode design in which an initial web survey was augmented with an equivalent telephonic survey. This article examines mode effect in the Western Cape survey in terms of overall effect size and the bearing it had on the main outcome of the study. Standardised residuals and Cramér’s V are used to determine mode effect across two scenarios, a full sample vs. a subsample, and using two categorical questions with different numbers of response categories. Overall effect size appears to be small in the first question, but increases noticeably together with non-responses in the second question that has many more response categories. Web responses to alumni or graduate destination surveys can perhaps be augmented with telephonic responses if necessary, provided response categories are kept to a minimum, and interviewers are trained properly and monitored for possible interviewer misbehaviour. The benefit of obtaining larger samples should then also outweigh the benefit of using web surveys alone. 相似文献
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Carol Landis PhD Candidate Tony Murphy PhD Candidate Teresa Schretter PhD Candidate David L. Haury 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》1995,4(3):181-190
As is true of all segments of society, science educators' use of the Internet has been increasing. Yet little research is available on the current use of this medium by science educators. This study was conducted with two surveys on two populations. The first, a telephone survey concerning use of the Internet, was administered to a known group of science educators. The second instrument, a revision of the first survey, was administered through the Internet to an unknown population of science educators. Results from the Internet survey showed that time online could be categorized into use of e-mail, bulletin boards, gopher sites, or other uses. In addition, most of the respondents accessed a fee network, rather than a commercial, or fee-paid network. Readers are cautioned that response to the survey was limited, therefore this study does not represent a general statement of science educators' use of the Internet. This study, while it has some limitations, is important in the exploration of Internet use by science educators. 相似文献
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This study was designed to provide longitudinal data about the change and/or the stability of college-bound students' educational and vocational goals and plans as well as their background characteristics. Data from three studies were contrasted and compared. Included in these studies were: (a) a 2-year follow-up of 4,009 junior college students: (b) a 4-year follow-up of 5,623 4-year college and university students; and (c) a comparison of the responses of two independent samples (32,351 and 50,205) of high school seniors.Considerable differences in stability among characteristics were found; however, the changes seem to be orderly and according to logical expectations. The utility of the findings regarding changes and stability in these characteristics for those who work with college populations are discussed, and possible applications are suggested. 相似文献
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TIM O'Donovan 《Education and Information Technologies》1998,3(1):3-26
This study explored the impact of information technology on internal communication at a tertiary education institution. An employee survey was distributed to determine the current impact of information technology on internal communication, and to explore the possible impact of two further information technology based communication systems. The survey found that despite a preference for face-to-face communication, respondents were better informed, more willing to communicate and exchanged more job-related information since the introduction of e-mail, voice mail and Wordview (policy and academic documents available on the network). The survey explored the possibility of introducing an electronic meeting system with 50% of respondents willing to try such a system. As the majority of respondents spend minimal time travelling and freely give their opinions at meetings, however, it is unlikely that such a system would result in further improvements in internal communication. Survey findings indicate the need for respondents to be better informed about the information available on their computers and how to access the information. The findings also indicate that there may be potential improvements in internal communication if an intranet is established. © 1998 IFIP, published by Chapman & Hall Ltd 相似文献
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The effect of offering respondents feedback on questionnaire results was investigated in a national mail survey of college-bound secondary school students. It was found that offering feedback had a significant positive effect on response rate, but the magnitude of that effect was slightly less than the increase in response rate resulting from a shorter questionnaire and considerably less than a follow-up contact with nonrespondents. 相似文献