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Zumrawi, Abdel Azim; Bates, Simon P.; Schroeder, Marianne – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2014
This paper addresses the determination of statistically desirable response rates in students' surveys, with emphasis on assessing the effect of underlying variability in the student evaluation of teaching (SET). We discuss factors affecting the determination of adequate response rates and highlight challenges caused by non-response and lack of…
Descriptors: Inferences, Test Reliability, Response Rates (Questionnaires), Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
McDonald, Betty – Online Submission, 2013
A focus group of 18 faculty members at Campus O of a higher educational institution and another focus group of 16 faculty members at Campus S of the same institution comprised the sample, representative of close to 100% of their respective populations. Independently, both groups were engaged in interactive Problem-Based Learning sessions. They…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Measures (Individuals), Focus Groups
Boser, Judith A.; Clark, Sheldon B. – 1990
This study of survey research experts was conducted to determine desirable characteristics of mail questionnaires. The 82-item Likert-scale instrument used in the study covered general appearance, instructions, choice of items, choice of response options, wording, order of items, and item format. The instrument was administered to: 8 subjects who…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Item Analysis, Likert Scales, Mail Surveys
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Muraki, Eiji – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1990
This study examined the application of the marginal maximum likelihood-EM algorithm to the parameter estimation problems of the normal ogive and logistic polytomous response models for Likert-type items. A rating scale model, based on F. Samejima's (1969) graded response model, was developed. (TJH)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Simulation, Equations (Mathematics), Goodness of Fit