An Empirical Investigation of Sampling Errors in Educational Survey Research

1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth N. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Sampling Errors

An Empirical Investigation of Sampling Errors In Educational Survey Research

1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth N. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Error Estimation ◽  
Multivariate Statistics ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Sampling Errors ◽  
Sample Design ◽  
Estimation Techniques ◽  
Sampling Distributions ◽  
Complex Sample

This investigation examines the influence of sample design on the sampling errors of several multivariate statistics which are frequently used in educational survey research. Student’s empirical sampling technique is used to generate sampling distributions for several complex sample designs which are often used to sample schools, classrooms and students. Some results are presented for two error estimation techniques: “Jackknifing” and “Balanced Repeated Replication”.

ENSURING QUALITY IN SURVEY RESEARCH

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gopi K Khanal
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Sampling Errors ◽  
Research Survey ◽  
The Social ◽  
Validity Tests ◽  
Survey Approach

This descripto-analytical paper on ensuring quality in survey research discusses the management of errors in administering survey. This paper aims to help the social science researchers to ensure the quality in the process and outcomes of survey research. It begins with the brief conceptual underpinnings of survey research, discusses about reliability and validity tests in survey, elaborates the notion of total survey error approach, and suggests some measures on handling survey errors. Given the wider applications and substantial costs associated with survey research, the issues of sampling and non-sampling errors have always been major concerns in the quality of survey research. Survey research can be instrumental in generating knowledge provided survey errors are handled properly. Though a variety of measures are in practices to ensure quality of survey data, this paper gives importance on total survey approach that gives emphasis on total quality management in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data. Dealing survey data from the perspective of total survey approach would yield fruitful results from survey research.

Nonsampling vs. Sampling Errors in Survey Research

1982 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Assael ◽  
John Keon
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Sampling Errors

The Pretest in Survey Research: Issues and Preliminary Findings

1982 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelby D. Hunt ◽  
Richard D. Sparkman ◽  
James B. Wilcox
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Current State

Despite their widely recognized importance in survey research, pretests have received little methodological attention. The authors summarize the current state of the art and report results from an empirical investigation of the effectiveness of respondent verbalizations in pretesting. The results suggest that pretesting is effective in identifying some types of problem questions but not others.

Self-Esteem and the SCII: Empirical Investigation of a Clinical Observation

1979 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-86
Author(s):  
Karen Friedel ◽  
Jo-Ida Hansen ◽  
Thomas J. Hummel ◽  
Warren F. Shaffer
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Clinical Observation ◽  
Self Esteem

Self-Injurious Behavior vs. Nonsuicidal Self-Injury

Crisis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Bloom ◽  
Shareen Holly ◽  
Adam M. P. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Positive Reinforcement ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Animal Research ◽  
Stress Conditions ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Pharmacological Interventions ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
Cns Stimulant ◽  
Nonsuicidal Self Injury

Background: Historically, the field of self-injury has distinguished between the behaviors exhibited among individuals with a developmental disability (self-injurious behaviors; SIB) and those present within a normative population (nonsuicidal self-injury; NSSI),which typically result as a response to perceived stress. More recently, however, conclusions about NSSI have been drawn from lines of animal research aimed at examining the neurobiological mechanisms of SIB. Despite some functional similarity between SIB and NSSI, no empirical investigation has provided precedent for the application of SIB-targeted animal research as justification for pharmacological interventions in populations demonstrating NSSI. Aims: The present study examined this question directly, by simulating an animal model of SIB in rodents injected with pemoline and systematically manipulating stress conditions in order to monitor rates of self-injury. Methods: Sham controls and experimental animals injected with pemoline (200 mg/kg) were assigned to either a low stress (discriminated positive reinforcement) or high stress (discriminated avoidance) group and compared on the dependent measures of self-inflicted injury prevalence and severity. Results: The manipulation of stress conditions did not impact the rate of self-injury demonstrated by the rats. The results do not support a model of stress-induced SIB in rodents. Conclusions: Current findings provide evidence for caution in the development of pharmacotherapies of NSSI in human populations based on CNS stimulant models. Theoretical implications are discussed with respect to antecedent factors such as preinjury arousal level and environmental stress.

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