• DocumentCode
    3563400
  • 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
  • fYear
    2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2014 IEEE
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FIE.2014.7044377
  • Filename
    7044377