Improving Alumni Survey Response Rates: An Experiment and Cost-Benefit Analysis.

Smith, Kerry; Bers, Trudy

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Publication Date: 1987

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Improving Alumni Survey Response Rates: An Experiment and Cost-Benefit Analysis.

Smith, Kerry; Bers, Trudy

Research in Higher Education, v27 n3 p218-25 1987

The effect of survey procedures suggested by Dillman's Total Design Method on response rate to a mail survey of two-year college alumni was tested. Results provided a test of Dillman's techniques in an educational setting and further information for institutional researchers about ways to improve response rates. (Author/MLW)

Descriptors: Alumni, Cost Effectiveness, Graduate Surveys, Higher Education, Two Year Colleges

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Language: English

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