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Boaduo, Nana Adu-Pipim – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
Two basic data sources required for research studies have been secondary and primary. Secondary data collection helps the researcher to provide relevant background to the study and are, in most cases, available for retrieval from recorded sources. Primary data collection requires the researcher to venture into the field where the study is to take…
Descriptors: Research Problems, Writing Research, Research Methodology, Data Collection
Yau, Hon Keung; Sun, Hongyi; Cheng, Alison Lai Fong – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2012
Students' adjustment to the university environment is an important factor in predicting university outcomes and is crucial to their future achievements. University support to students' transition to university life can be divided into three dimensions: academic adjustment, social adjustment and psychological adjustment. However, these…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Adjustment, Social Adjustment, Foreign Countries
Abouserie, Hossam M. R. – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this study was to explore and investigate the ways faculty at The School of Information Studies at Syracuse University use Networked Information Sources and Services to support their service tasks. Library and Information Sciences faculty were chosen as the population for this study. The study aimed to answer the following…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Information Sources, College Faculty, Technology Uses in Education
Rice, Ronald E.; Danowski, James – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991
Discusses semantic communication networks, methods of content analysis, and voice mail as a communication system. A study that examined conceptual distinctions between voice mail answering and voice mail messaging in a large insurance organization is described, and semantic network analysis is compared to traditional content analysis. (28…
Descriptors: Citation Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Hypothesis Testing

Aldridge, Michelle; Waddon, Alun – Language Awareness, 1995
Results of a survey of 200 parents attending baby and child clinics in North Wales show that parents know less about language development than about other areas of child development. Results suggest that both monolingual and bilingual parents and their children would benefit from improved information on how to facilitate language development. (43…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Foreign Countries, Hypothesis Testing

Weitzendorf, Thomas; Hiller, Harald – Review of Information Science, 1996
Discusses the correlation between corporate performance and the use of information technology. Tests a model that was based on management information systems literature. Examines system effectiveness, user information satisfaction, organizational conversion, top management commitment, and organizational climate. Discusses testing in Austrian and…
Descriptors: Administration, Banking, Correlation, Evaluation Methods
Smith, Margaret H. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2004
Unless the sample encompasses a substantial portion of the population, the standard error of an estimator depends on the size of the sample, but not the size of the population. This is a crucial statistical insight that students find very counterintuitive. After trying several ways of convincing students of the validity of this principle, I have…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Error of Measurement, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics
Halvorson, Sarah J.; Wescoat, James L., Jr. – Journal of Geography, 2002
This paper reports on the design and implementation of a project-based course--World Water Problems--that was introduced within the framework of introductory undergraduate geography education. The aims of the course were twofold: (1) to cultivate in students a world geographic perspective on water problems; and (2) to conduct an original research…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Hypothesis Testing, Electronic Libraries, Databases