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Plain Language in Web Questionnaires: Effects on Data Quality and Questionnaire Evaluation
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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
One Size Fits All? A Comparative Review of Policy-Making in the Area of Research Impact Evaluation in the UK, Poland and Norway
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Marta Natalia Wróblewska – Research Evaluation, 2025
The Impact Agenda, introduced with Research Excellence Framework 2014 (REF), constituted a revolution in research evaluation in the UK. 'Research impact' (impact of scholarly work outside of academia) became one of three profiles under which research quality is evaluated. This shift in the British evaluation system was followed, and often…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Research, Evaluation Research
Fordham Institute's Pretend Research. Policy Brief
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Phelps, Richard P. – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2016
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute has released a report, "Evaluating the Content and Quality of Next Generation Assessments," ostensibly an evaluative comparison of four testing programs, the Common Core derived SBAC and PARCC, ACT's Aspire, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' MCAS. Of course, anyone familiar with Fordham's past work…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Tests, Evaluation Research, Standardized Tests
Common Language Effect Size for Multiple Treatment Comparisons
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Liu, Xiaofeng Steven – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2015
Researchers who need to explain treatment effects to laypeople can translate Cohen's effect size (standardized mean difference) to a common language effect size--a probability of a random observation from one population being larger than a random observation from the other population. This common language effect size can be extended to represent…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Outcomes of Treatment, Language Usage, Probability
Constructs Assessed by the GARS-2: Factor Analysis of Data from the Standardization Sample
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Pandolfi, Vincent; Magyar, Caroline I.; Dill, Charles A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2010
The GARS-2 (Gilliam 2006) is widely used for autism screening; however, the validity of its three conceptually-derived subscales has not been evaluated. In this study, exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory (CFA) factor analyses of data from matched subgroups of the standardization sample did not support the GARS-2 subscale structure. EFAs identified…
Descriptors: Autism, Factor Analysis, Test Construction, Rating Scales
Methods for Evaluating Critical Learning Using Online Discussion Forums
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Riley, Nigel R. – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2006
This study is concerned with evaluating critical learning of 10-11 year-old students studying global citizenship through an online discussion environment. The evaluation is based on analysing the use of language as both a social reasoning tool and cognitive learning tool. Evaluation methods use: (1) content analysis of the online discussion…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Concept Mapping, Computer Mediated Communication, Content Analysis