Download or read book Alumni Surveys as a Data Collection Methodology written by Charles E. Eesley and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of alumni surveys as a data collection methodology for empirical studies of innovation and entrepreneurship is a relatively recent phenomenon. Since limitations of data access have traditionally been a key bottleneck in the progress of systematically understanding the process of the commercialization of new ideas through entrepreneurial firms, it is worthwhile to consider the advantages and disadvantages of this method. By way of introduction, this chapter will first discuss the few existing alumni surveys that have been used to yield insights into entrepreneurship. Through these examples the types of questions that an alumni survey is well suited to answer become more clear. The following section will use these examples, along with the author's own experience with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) alumni survey dataset and in designing and executing the first alumni survey overseas, at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the alumni survey methodology.
Download or read book Survey of Alumni Surveys written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2014 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report examines how college offices of alumni affairs, advancement and career services conduct surveys of alumni, with data presented separately for colleges at different enrollment levels, tuition levels, Carnegie class, and for public and private institutions. In addition, data is presented separately for offices of career services and offices of alumni services/advancement. The study helps its readers to answer questions such as: how often do colleges survey their alumni? What kind or types of alumni are surveyed? What are the response rates? Do response rates differ by type of alumni? If so, by how much have they changed? How are alumni reached? Through phone, mail, email or online survey vehicles? What measures are taken to increase response rates? How long are the surveys? What kinds of questions are asked? Have the surveys changed in recent years? Have particular topics become more or less popular? What has been the impact of consortia or partnership approaches to alumni surveying? What has been the impact on alumni surveying of the proposed Obama Administration measures to tie higher education funding to demonstrable career results for alumni? What is done with alumni survey data? Which departments at the college request it the most? Which departments do their own alumni surveying or contribute questions to the alumni surveys conducted by other departments?
Download or read book Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community colleges play an important role in starting students on the road to engineering careers, but students often face obstacles in transferring to four-year educational institutions to continue their education. Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers, a new book from the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council, discusses ways to improve the transfer experience for students at community colleges and offers strategies to enhance partnerships between those colleges and four-year engineering schools to help students transfer more smoothly. In particular, the book focuses on challenges and opportunities for improving transfer between community colleges and four-year educational institutions, recruitment and retention of students interested in engineering, the curricular content and quality of engineering programs, opportunities for community colleges to increase diversity in the engineering workforce, and a review of sources of information on community college and transfer students. It includes a number of current policies, practices, and programs involving community collegeâ€"four-year institution partnerships.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on ePortfolios written by Jafari, Ali and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This handbook investigates a variety of ePortfolio uses through case studies, the technology that supports the case studies, and it also explains the conceptual thinking behind current uses as well as potential uses"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Learning and Performance Assessment Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 1757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As teaching strategies continue to change and evolve, and technology use in classrooms continues to increase, it is imperative that their impact on student learning is monitored and assessed. New practices are being developed to enhance students’ participation, especially in their own assessment, be it through peer-review, reflective assessment, the introduction of new technologies, or other novel solutions. Educators must remain up-to-date on the latest methods of evaluation and performance measurement techniques to ensure that their students excel. Learning and Performance Assessment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source that examines emerging perspectives on the theoretical and practical aspects of learning and performance-based assessment techniques and applications within educational settings. Highlighting a range of topics such as learning outcomes, assessment design, and peer assessment, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for educators, administrative officials, principals, deans, instructional designers, school boards, academicians, researchers, and education students seeking coverage on an educator’s role in evaluation design and analyses of evaluation methods and outcomes.
Download or read book Enhancing Alumni Research written by David J. Weerts and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing globalization of higher education has made it easy to compare problems, goals and tools associated with conducting alumni research around the world. This volume draws of the perspectives of authors from the United States, German, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands to illustrate the opportunities and challenges of applying alumni research to guide public policy and institutional reform. Topics include: Making an impact with alumni surveys Alumni studies as instruments of public policy: the US experience Increasing potentials of alumni research for curriculum reforms: German Research Institute Measuring competencies of higher education graduates Using alumni research to align program improvement with institutional accountability The emerging uses of alumni research in Spain Alumni studies in the United Kingdom The chapter authors examine ways in which alumni research in the United States and Europe is becoming more relevant to key audiences outside the university and how it is being used to inform important constituencies about the impact, purposes, and successes of higher education. The goal of this volume is to help institutional leaders use alumni research to respond to the increasing demands of state officials, accrediting agencies, employers, potential students, parents, and the general public. This is the 126th volume of the Jossey-Bass higher education report series New Directions for Institutional Research. Always timely and comprehensive, New Directions for Institutional Research provides planners and administrators in all types of academic institutions with guidelines in such areas as resource coordination, information analysis, program evaluation, and institutional management.
Download or read book Alumni Research written by Gerlinda S. Melchiori and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surveying Your Alumni written by and published by Council for Advancement & Support of Education. This book was released on 1983 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for conducting alumni surveys is presented, including 22 sample questionnaires. The first section on planning an effective survey strategy includes the following five articles: "Let's Take a Survey" (Cletis Pride); "Surveying Your Alumni: Or an Unexamined College Is Not Worth Loving" (Jocelyn Bartkevicius); "Make Your Survey Scientific" (James H. Frey); "The Postman Rings Thrice: How to Survey Your Alumni through the Mail" (H. Martin Moore); and "Let Your Fingers Do the Walking: The Nine Steps of Surveying Alumni via Telephone" (Robert D. Mills). Seven biographical questionnaire samples and 16 opinion questionnaire samples are provided, along with a selection of cover letters and followup correspondence. Finally, three articles are provided that address the challenge of presenting the survey results: "CSPP Alumni: Where Are They Now?" (Special Report, California School of Professional Psychology); "Who Are the Alumni" (Elise Hancock in "Johns Hopkins Magazine"); and "The Shockley Report" (in "Vanderbilt Alumnus"). Specific topics addressed in the guide include: the problems with many alumni surveys; using standard scientific sampling and research procedures; a time-table for planning mail surveys, and a comparison of face-to-face, mail, and telephone surveys. (SW)
Download or read book Using Data to Improve Higher Education written by Maria Eliophotou Menon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, higher education systems and institutions have been called to respond to an unprecedented number of challenges. Major challenges
Download or read book HCI International 2021 Late Breaking Papers Cognition Inclusion Learning and Culture written by Constantine Stephanidis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes late breaking papers from the 23rd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2021, which was held in July 2021. The conference was planned to take place in Washington DC, USA but had to change to a virtual conference mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 5222 individuals from academia, research institutes, industry, and governmental agencies from 81 countries submitted contributions, and 1276 papers and 241 posters were included in the volumes of the proceedings that were published before the start of the conference. Additionally, 174 papers and 146 posters are included in the volumes of the proceedings published after the conference, as “Late Breaking Work” (papers and posters). The contributions thoroughly cover the entire field of HCI, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas.
Download or read book Entrepreneurial Impact written by Edward B. Roberts and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2011 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT -- An Updated Report helps us understand the economic impact of the entrepreneurial ventures of university graduates. We know that some universities play an important role in many economies through their core education, research and development, and other spillovers... While MIT's leadership in developing successful entrepreneurs has been evident anecdotally, this study--one of the largest surveys of entrepreneur alumni ever conducted--quantifies the significant impact of MIT's entrepreneurial ecosystem that supports firm startups."--P.[4] of cover
Download or read book Research in Alumni Relations written by Donna Shoemaker and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents summaries of 16 papers presented at a conference on increasing the amount and usefulness of research on alumni relations. Following an introductory paper, "On the Art and Science of Surveying Alumni" (Donna Shoemaker), the papers are: (1) "Targeted Research Gets Results. Comprehensive Research on Alumni Relationships: Four Years of Market Research at Stanford University" (Jerold Pearson); (2) "An Unvarnished Look: Evaluating Alumni Services and Planning Alumni Programs" (Diana Tilley Strange; William J. Hecht); (3) "Our Grads Are Doing Great! Uses of an Alumni Survey by Independent Colleges and Universities in Pennsylvania" (Michael D. McGuire; Jason P. Casey); (4) "A Model for Nurturing Students: What Makes a Difference? The Cornell Tradition Program" (Yuko Mulugetta; Scott Nash; Susan H. Murphy); (5) "How a Degree Rates in the Workplace: Building the Campus Impact of Assessment Through a Program of Linked Alumni and Employer Survey Research" (J. Joseph Hoey; Denise C. Gardner); (6) "If You Build It, Will They Come? The Heart of Campus: Alumni Facilities and the Impact on Alumni Giving and Programming" (Gene C. Crume; Jason Embry; Donald Smith); (7) "Testing Why Alumni Give: A Model of Alumni Gift-Giving Behavior" (J. Fredericks Volkwein; Kelli Parmley); (8) "The Data That Drive MIT's Success: Fund Raising from Alumni" (Joseph S. Collins; Diana Tilley Strange); (9) "Real-World Realities for Vets: Alumni as a Component of Assessment" (Dawn Geronimo Terkla; Kelli J. Armstrong); (10) "HEDS Up on Student Debt. Effective Alumni Surveys: A Tool for Addressing Institutional and National Concerns" (James F. Trainer; Melinda K. Ellis); (11) "Two States Benchmark Accountability: Conducting Alumni Research in and for State Higher Education Systems" (Marsha V. Krotseng; Darrell E. Glenn); (12) "Surf's Up on Satisfaction: Using Alumni Follow-Up to Assess Institutional Quality" (Larry H. Kelley); (13) "Super Cyber Surveys: Surveying and Reporting Alumni Data in the Information Age: The Case for Using the Web" (Nancy L. Ahson; Karen M. Gentemann); (14) "The Plight of Ph.Ds. Doctoral Graduates in Today's Employment Marketplace: Are They Really Driving Taxi Cabs?" (Nancy Garrett; Sandra H. Hoeflich); (15) "Would Alumni Do It All Again? Influences on Alumni Willingness to Attend the Same Institution, Select the Same Major, and Enter the Same Career" (J. Fredericks Volkwein; Fuqin Bian); and (16) "Engineer Good Feedback: Using Data from a Survey of Alumni to Promote Change in the Academic Program at MIT" (Lydia Snover). A final chapter offers remarks by five conference participants. (DB)
Download or read book Improving Survey Methods written by Uwe Engel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This state-of-the-art volume provides insight into the recent developments in survey research. It covers topics like: survey modes and response effects, bio indicators and paradata, interviewer and survey error, mixed-mode panels, sensitive questions, conducting web surveys and access panels, coping with non-response, and handling missing data. The authors are leading scientists in the field, and discuss the latest methods and challenges with respect to these topics. Each of the book’s eight parts starts with a brief chapter that provides an historical context along with an overview of today’s most critical survey methods. Chapters in the sections focus on research applications in practice and discuss results from field studies. As such, the book will help researchers design surveys according to today’s best practices. The book’s website www.survey-methodology.de provides additional information, statistical analyses, tables and figures. An indispensable reference for practicing researchers and methodologists or any professional who uses surveys in their work, this book also serves as a supplement for graduate or upper level-undergraduate courses on survey methods taught in psychology, sociology, education, economics, and business. Although the book focuses on European findings, all of the research is discussed with reference to the entire survey-methodology area, including the US. As such, the insights in this book will apply to surveys conducted around the world.
Download or read book Question Evaluation Methods written by Jennifer Madans and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insightful observations on common question evaluation methods and best practices for data collection in survey research Featuring contributions from leading researchers and academicians in the field of survey research, Question Evaluation Methods: Contributing to the Science of Data Quality sheds light on question response error and introduces an interdisciplinary, cross-method approach that is essential for advancing knowledge about data quality and ensuring the credibility of conclusions drawn from surveys and censuses. Offering a variety of expert analyses of question evaluation methods, the book provides recommendations and best practices for researchers working with data in the health and social sciences. Based on a workshop held at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), this book presents and compares various question evaluation methods that are used in modern-day data collection and analysis. Each section includes an introduction to a method by a leading authority in the field, followed by responses from other experts that outline related strengths, weaknesses, and underlying assumptions. Topics covered include: Behavior coding Cognitive interviewing Item response theory Latent class analysis Split-sample experiments Multitrait-multimethod experiments Field-based data methods A concluding discussion identifies common themes across the presented material and their relevance to the future of survey methods, data analysis, and the production of Federal statistics. Together, the methods presented in this book offer researchers various scientific approaches to evaluating survey quality to ensure that the responses to these questions result in reliable, high-quality data. Question Evaluation Methods is a valuable supplement for courses on questionnaire design, survey methods, and evaluation methods at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. it also serves as a reference for government statisticians, survey methodologists, and researchers and practitioners who carry out survey research in the areas of the social and health sciences.
Download or read book Designing Effective Assessment written by Trudy W. Banta and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen years ago Trudy Banta and her colleagues surveyed the national landscape for the campus examples that were published in the classic work Assessment in Practice. Since then, significant advances have occurred, including the use of technology to organize and manage the assessment process and increased reliance on assessment findings to make key decisions aimed at enhancing student learning. Trudy Banta, Elizabeth Jones, and Karen Black offer 49 detailed current examples of good practice in planning, implementing, and sustaining assessment that are practical and ready to apply in new settings. This important resource can help educators put in place an effective process for determining what works and which improvements will have the most impact in improving curriculum, methods of instruction, and student services on college and university campuses.
Download or read book International Handbook of Survey Methodology written by Edith D. de Leeuw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking into account both traditional and emerging modes, this comprehensive new Handbook covers all major methodological and statistical issues in designing and analyzing surveys. With contributions from the world's leading survey methodologists and statisticians, this invaluable new resource provides guidance on collecting survey data and creating meaningful results. Featuring examples from a variety of countries, the book reviews such things as how to deal with sample designs, write survey questions, and collect data on the Internet. A thorough review of the procedures associated with multiple modes of collecting sample survey information and applying that combination of methods that fit the situation best is included. The International Handbook of Survey Methodology opens with the foundations of survey design, ranging from sources of error, to ethical issues. This is followed by a section on design that reviews sampling challenges and tips on writing and testing questions for multiple methods. Part three focuses on data collection, from face-to-face interviews, to Internet and interactive voice response, to special challenges involved in mixing these modes within one survey. Analyzing data from both simple and complex surveys is then explored, as well as procedures for adjusting data. The book concludes with a discussion of maintaining quality. Intended for advanced students and researchers in the behavioral, social, and health sciences, this "must have" resource will appeal to those interested in conducting or using survey data from anywhere in the world, especially those interested in comparing results across countries. The book also serves as a state-of-the-art text for graduate level courses and seminars on survey methodology. A companion website contains additional readings and examples.
Download or read book Advances in Business and Management Forecasting written by Kenneth D. Lawrence and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 12 presents studies in the application of forecasting methodologies to such areas as supply chain, health care, prospecting for donations from university alumni, and the use of clustering and regression in forecasting. The orientation of this volume is for business applications for both the researcher and the practitioner of forecasting.
