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Comparisons of Online Recruitment Strategies for Convenience Samples: Craigslist, Google AdWords, Facebook, and Amazon Mechanical Turk
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Antoun, Christopher; Zhang, Chan; Conrad, Frederick G.; Schober, Michael F. – Field Methods, 2016
The rise of social media websites (e.g., Facebook) and online services such as Google AdWords and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) offers new opportunities for researchers to recruit study participants. Although researchers have started to use these emerging methods, little is known about how they perform in terms of cost efficiency and, more…
Descriptors: Social Media, Web Sites, Recruitment, Users (Information)
Prenotification, Incentives, and Survey Modality: An Experimental Test of Methods to Increase Survey Response Rates of School Principals
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Jacob, Robin Tepper; Jacob, Brian – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
Teacher and principal surveys are among the most common data collection techniques employed in education research. Yet there is remarkably little research on survey methods in education, or about the most cost-effective way to raise response rates among teachers and principals. In an effort to explore various methods for increasing survey response…
Descriptors: Principals, Data Collection, Test Theory, Response Rates (Questionnaires)
Review of "A School Privatization Primer for Michigan School Officials, Media and Residents"
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Belfield, Clive – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2008
Issued by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, "A School Privatization Primer for Michigan School Officials, Media and Residents" examines the "contracting out" of public school support services--specifically food, transportation, and custodial services. The report describes the prevalence of contracting out and sets forth…
Descriptors: Privatization, School Maintenance, School Support, Public Policy
Integrating Education into Primary Care Quality and Cost Improvement at an Academic Medical Center
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Harrison, R. Van; Standiford, Connie J.; Green, Lee A.; Bernstein, Steven J. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2006
Introduction: In 1996 the University of Michigan Health System created the Guidelines Utilization, Implementation, Development, and Evaluation Studies (GUIDES) unit to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of primary care for common medical problems. GUIDES's primary functions are to oversee the development of evidence-based, practical…
Descriptors: Physicians, Quality Control, Medical Education, Total Quality Management
1981 Employer Follow-Up Survey of 1980 Completers and Leavers.
Instructional Development and Evaluation Associates, Inc., Berkeley, MI. – 1981
A study examined the perceptions of employers in Michigan concerning the vocational training received by employees who either completed or left vocational training programs in 1980. A second objective of the study was to compare the relative cost and effectiveness of using telephone and mail surveys to gather data for this type of study. Of a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Educational Benefits
State Enterprise Zone Programs: Have They Worked?
Peters, Alan H.; Fisher, Peter S. – 2002
The effectiveness of state enterprise zone programs was examined by using a hypothetical-firm model called the Tax and Incentives Model-Enterprise Zones (TAIM-ez) model to analyze the value of enterprise zone incentives to businesses across the United States and especially in the 13 states that had substantial enterprise zone programs by 1990. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Corporations, Cost Effectiveness, Definitions