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The DELES was designed to measure students' perceptions of their distance education social environment through six scales: Instructor Support (Scale I, consisting of 8 items), (e.g. The instructor responds promptly to my questions). Student Interaction and Collaboration (Scale II, consisting of 6 items), (e.g. I collaborate with other students ...
The social norms approach, or social norms marketing, [1] is an environmental strategy gaining ground in health campaigns. [2] While conducting research in the mid-1980s, two researchers, H.W. Perkins and A.D. Berkowitz, [3] reported that students at a small U.S. college held exaggerated beliefs about the normal frequency and consumption habits of other students with regard to alcohol.
The High School Survey of Student Engagement (HSSSE) is a survey designed to investigate student engagement: the attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs of high school students about their work. The survey was the central component of a research and professional development project directed by the Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) at ...
Safety culture is the element of organizational culture which is concerned with the maintenance of safety and compliance with safety standards. It is informed by the organization 's leadership and the beliefs , perceptions and values that employees share in relation to risks within the organization, workplace or community .
Surveys may be conducted by phone, mail, via the internet, and also in person in public spaces. Surveys are used to gather or gain knowledge in fields such as social research and demography. Survey research is often used to assess thoughts, opinions and feelings. [1] Surveys can be specific and limited, or they can have more global, widespread ...
The Youth Internet Safety Survey was a series of two surveys conducted in the United States in 1999 and 2004. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) provided funding to Dr. David Finkelhor, Director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, to conduct a research survey in 1999 on Internet victimization of youth.
The core NCCS design uses a sample survey approach rather than a census of all students. (However, schools will have the option to conduct a census if they wish.) A randomly selected sample of students (undergraduates and graduates) allowed the study to make scientifically based inferences to the population as a whole, helped focus finite research resources on successfully contacting and ...
For example if an interview is used to investigate sixth grade students' attitudes toward smoking, the scores could be compared with a questionnaire of former sixth graders' attitudes toward smoking. Results of self-report studies have been confirmed by other methods.