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9780787999049: Advances in Survey Research (New Directions for Evaluation)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0787999040 ISBN 13: 9780787999049
Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1996

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Surveys are a fundamental mode of research across all the social science. This volume focuses on recent lines of theory and research related to survey design, implementation, analysis, and interpretation. The chapters address a variety of methodologically oriented topics. including the types of survey error, cognitive research on survey responding, response effects due to survey mode differences, theories pertinent to survey nonresponse, Rasch applications to survey data quality, and issues of questionnaire translation. The volume also includes an analysis of how surveys can be used to involve the public in program and policy evaluation. All survey modes--mail, telephone, and personal interview--are discussed. Our intent is to help evaluators imporve the quality of surveys they conduct and to stimulate evaluators to use surveys in new contexts. This is the 70th issue in the journal series New Directions for Evaluation.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

MARC T. BRAVERMAN is a Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Human and Community Development and director of the 4-H Center for Youth Development at the University of California, Davis.
JANA KAY SLATER is senior research scientist at the Center for Research on Adolescent Health and Development at the Public Health Institute in Oakland, California.

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Surveys are a fundamental mode of research across all the social science. This volume of New Directions for Evaluation focuses on recent lines of theory and research related to survey design, implementation, analysis, and interpretation. The chapters address a variety of methodologically oriented topics. including the types of survey error, cognitive research on survey responding, response effects due to survey mode differences, theories pertinent to survey nonresponse, Rasch applications to survey data quality, and issues of questionnaire translation. The volume also includes an analysis of how surveys can be used to involve the public in program and policy evaluation. All survey modes--mail, telephone, and personal interview--are discussed. Our intent is to help evaluators imporve the quality of surveys they conduct and to stimulate evaluators to use surveys in new contexts. This is the 70th issue in the journal series New Directions for Evaluation. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.

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Surveys are a fundamental mode of research across all the social science. This volume of New Directions for Evaluation focuses on recent lines of theory and research related to survey design, implementation, analysis, and interpretation. The chapters address a variety of methodologically oriented topics. including the types of survey error, cognitive research on survey responding, response effects due to survey mode differences, theories pertinent to survey nonresponse, Rasch applications to survey data quality, and issues of questionnaire translation. The volume also includes an analysis of how surveys can be used to involve the public in program and policy evaluation. All survey modes--mail, telephone, and personal interview--are discussed. Our intent is to help evaluators imporve the quality of surveys they conduct and to stimulate evaluators to use surveys in new contexts. This is the 70th issue in the journal series New Directions for Evaluation. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.

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Verlag
Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0787999040
ISBN 13 
9780787999049
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
110
Herausgeber
Braverman Marc T., Slater Jana Kay
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