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Krakower, Jack Y. – 1984
Three factors are considered that contribute to the perception that the higher education research effort has done a poor job in dealing with problems confronting academe. The first factor is the magnitude of the higher education enterprise and the number of problems and issues inherent in it. The second factor is the level of support for research,…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Higher Education, Institutional Research
McMillan, James H. – 1996
This book is intended for a one-semester or one-term course in educational research. It is designed to enable students to become intelligent consumers of educational research and to introduce its basic principles to those who eventually may be involved in research in their work. The chapters are: (1) "Introduction to Research in Education"; (2)…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Educational Research, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing
Sagaria, Mary Ann D.; And Others – 1985
The development of a graduate survey at Ohio Dominican College is described, and guidelines for implementing a graduate survey are provided. The survey assessed student characteristics, activities during college, endeavors after graduation, and attitudes, goals, and values. Project goals included: developing a graduate survey that could also be…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Planning, Evaluation Methods, Followup Studies
Salter, Maurice M. – New Directions for Education, Work and Careers, 1979
A career experiences survey at the University of California Irvine is described including: the benefits and uses of its findings, administrative framework and strategies for approval, sampling, treatment of data, college related skills alumni have found useful, where to house a study of campus, and dissemination of findings. (MLW)
Descriptors: Careers, College Graduates, Data Analysis, Education Work Relationship
Law, Alexander I.; Bronson, William H. – 1977
This guide was designed for trainers presenting inservice workshops for program evaluators, teachers, principals, curriculum specialists, and others responsible for school programs. It is keyed to a companion volume, the Program Evaluator's Guide (ED l42 563), the primary source for workshop participants. Developed under the California Evaluation…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators
Forsyth, G. Alfred; And Others – 1991
To determine the factors that influence interpretation of a research study description, 8 descriptions of research studies were interpreted by 320 undergraduate students in psychology, mathematics, and economics statistics and research methods classes at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada), Millersville University (Pennsylvania),…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Economics, Foreign Countries, Generalization