Title :
Motivation-participation conflation: Investigating response bias in intra-semester longitudinal class surveys
Author :
Dillon, Alex ; Stolk, Jonathan D.
Author_Institution :
Franklin W. Olin Coll. of Eng., Needham, MA, USA
Abstract :
Early analysis does not support a link between students´ motivation levels and their survey participation rates, suggesting that repeated sampling throughout a semester may be more capable of documenting a representative cross-section of student experiences than we originally expected.
Keywords :
education; human factors; student experiments; intra-semester longitudinal class surveys; motivation-participation conflation; students motivation levels; Atmospheric measurements; Context; Correlation; Educational institutions; Instruments; Market research; Particle measurements; longitudinal; motivation; sample bias; self-determination; self-report;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2014 IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2014.7044377
