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Peer reviewedHanson, Marjorie K.; McNamara, James F. – Planning and Changing, 1981
A case study of a survey of new students made at a postsecondary vocational-technical school illustrates several sampling problems, including sample size, target population definition, determination of research purposes, costs, error tolerance, accuracy, and interpretation of research results for use by policymakers. (RW)
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Reliability, Research Methodology, Research Problems
Download full textCohen, Arthur M. – 1976
Study of college faculty has been hampered by the variation in types of institutions, the difficulty of obtaining an accurate faculty sample, and poor response rates to large-scale surveys. This document examines various approaches to conducting large-scale faculty surveys, and describes a suggested procedure to mitigate methodological problems.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, National Surveys, Postsecondary Education, Questionnaires
Peer reviewedLeslie, David W.; Fygetakis, Elaine C. – Research in Higher Education, 1992
This paper compares the results of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the Carnegie surveys of postsecondary faculty and notes the differently constructed samples, the different response rates, and different weighting schemes in analysis and interpretation. Inconsistencies in the surveys' results are identified and methodological…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Higher Education
Research Triangle Inst., Durham, NC. – 1996
This document provides the description, summary, and evaluation of methodological procedures and results for the field test of the 1995-96 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:96). Chapter 1 describes the background, purposes, and scheduled procedures of the NPSAS:96 and the unique purposes of the field test. The NPSAS is a…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Finance, Field Tests, National Surveys
Cohen, Michael P. – 1988
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) of the National Center for Education Statistics collects data from all sections of postsecondary education. For less-than-two-year institutions, the IPEDS collects data on fall enrollment, completions (earned awards and certificates), etc., from all public institutions in that category and…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases, Estimation (Mathematics)
Selby, David – 1977
Ways that data from four major longitudinal surveys can be used in postsecondary education policy analysis are discussed: the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience (NLS-LM), Project TALENT, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-HS). The potential use…
Descriptors: Aspiration, College Attendance, Databases, Economic Factors
