Web Survey Bibliography
Background: Web-based technologies are increasingly being used to create modes of online learning for nurses but their effect has not been assessed in nurse education.
Objectives: Assess whether participation in face-to-face discussion seminars or online asynchronous discussion groups had different effects on educational attainment in a web-based course.
Design: Non-randomised or quasi-experimental design with two groups-students choosing to have face-to-face discussion seminars and students choosing to have online discussions.
Setting: The Core Methods module, of a postgraduate research methods course.
Participants: All 114 students participating in the first 2yr during which the course teaching material was delivered online.
Outcome: Assignment mark for Core Methods course module.
Methods: Background details of the students, their choices of modules and assignment marks were collected as part of the routine course administration. Students' online activities were identified using the student tracking facility within WebCT. Regression models were fitted to explore the association between available explanatory variables and assignment mark.
Results: Students choosing online discussions had a higher Core Methods assignment mark (mean 60.8/100) than students choosing face-to-face discussions (54.4); the difference was statistically significant (t = 3.13, df = 102, p = 0.002), although this ignores confounding variables. Among online discussion students, assignment mark was significantly correlated with the numbers of discussion messages read (Kendall's tau(b) = 0.22, p = 0.050) and posted (Kendall's tau(b) = 0.27,p = 0.017); among face-to-face discussion students, it was significantly associated with the number of non-discussion hits in WebCT (Kendall's tau(b) = 0. 19, p = 0.036). In regression analysis, choice of discussion method, whether an M.Phil./Ph.D. student, number of non-discussion hits in WebCT, number of online discussion messages read and number posted were associated with assignment mark at the 5% level of significance when taken singly; in combination, only whether an M.Phil./Ph.D. student (p = 0.024) and number of non-discussion hits (p = 0.045) retained significance.
Conclusions: This study demonstrates that a research methods course can be delivered to postgraduate healthcare students at least as successfully by an entirely online method in which students participate in online discussion as by a blended method in which students accessing web-based teaching material attend face-to-face seminar discussions. Increased online activity was associated with higher assignment marks. The study highlights new opportunities for educational research that arise from the use of virtual learning environments that routinely record the activities of learners and tutors.
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- Machines that Learn how to Code Open-Ended Survey Data: Underlying Principles, Experimental Data, and...; 2008; Sebastiani, F.
- Computer coding of 1992 ANES Like/Dislike and MIP responses; 2008; Fan, D. P.
- CATA (Computer Aided Text Analysis) Options for the Coding of Open-Ended Survey Data; 2008; Skalski, P.
- Classifying Open Occupation Descriptions in the Current Population Survey; 2008; Conrad, F. G., Couper, M. P.
- Coding Responses Generated by Open-Ended Questions: Meaning Matching or Meaning Inference?; 2008; Potter, Ji.
- Open-ended questions and text analysis; 2008; Popping, R.
- Coding Verbal Data - What to Optimize?; 2008; Krippendorff, K.
- An evaluation of the weighting procedures for an online access panel survey; 2008; Loosveldt, G., Sonck, N.
- The adequacy of response rates to online and paper surveys: what can be done?; 2008; Nulty, D. D.
- Validity of an On-Line Panel Approach to Citizen Surveys; 2008; Van Ryzin, G. G.
- Internet dating: a British survey; 2008; Gunter, B.
- Survey of Web Developers in Academic Libraries ; 2008; Connell, R. S.
- Online vs. face-to-face discussion in a web-based research methods course for postgraduate nursing students...; 2008; Campbell, M., Gibson, W., Hall, A., Richards, D., Callery, P.
- Using Web 2.0 to Conduct Qualitative Research: A Conceptual Model ; 2008
- Testing telephone and web surveys for studying men's sexual assault perpetration behaviors ; 2008; DiNitto, D. M., Busch-Armendariz, N. B., Bender, K., Woo, H., Tackett-Gibson, M., Dyer, J.
- Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods: Uncovering Emotional Drivers From Qualitative...; 2008; Reid, Aa.
- Mobile Research: Five Ways To Collect Data Using Mobile Devices; 2008; Conry, S.
- Best Practices For Identifying Duplicate Respondents; 2008; Ouren. J., Dickie, W. J., Chokeir, N.
- Engaged Respondents Are Better- Innovative Techniques To Improve Response; 2008; Sleep, D.
- Analytic implications of panel data quality; 2008; Harlow, B.
- Measuring the value of respondent engagement; 2008; Puleston, J., Sleep, D.
- Pavlov revisited; 2008; De Wulf, K., Friedman, M., Borggreve, B.
- Between random samples and online panels; 2008; Crassweller, A., Rogers, J.
- Digital moms; 2008; Wilbur, C. Rimmer, L.
- Research Instruments: Driving e-Science? ; 2008; Schroeder, R.
- The US Institutional Review Board and Online Research Ethics; 2008; Markham, A., Buchanan, E. A., Ess, C.
- Getting animated about emotion; 2008; Penn, D.
- Can online panels be truly global?; 2008; Shashkin, A. V.
- Digital video at the service of research; 2008; McClure, S., Renard, M. C.
- Realism in research; 2008; Richarme, M., Colias, J.
- What Can We Achieve With 5 Euros? Optimization of Survey Data Quality Using Mixed-Mode Approaches; 2008; Berzelak, N., Vehovar, V., Lozar Manfreda, K.
- Measuring Non-Response Cross Nationally; 2008; Blom, A. G.
- Use of a website to evaluate quality of work-life and quality of life among community workers helping...; 2008; Dupuis, G.
- Comparing the network structures in teams among companies: Extensions of the MTML approach; 2008; Agneessens, F., Contractor, N.
- Online poll in study of incentives to participation of youth in innovative development; 2008; Gvozdeva, E. S.
- Measuring ties on online forums; 2008; Ziberna, A., Vehovar, V., Jakulin, A.
- Using Internet Pages of Organisations as Data Source for Social Science Research; 2008; Baumgarten, B., Grauel, J.
- Social Web Data as a Source for Social Science Research. The Example of a German Online Dating Website...; 2008; Skopek, J., Schmitz, A.
- DHS CAPI Data Collection Model Using PDAs; 2008; Rojas, G.
- The relative Coverage Error in Telephone Surveys caused by Mobile-Only Populations across Europe; 2008; Fuchs, M.
- Chaotic Web: The challenge of Misinformation and Disinformation; 2008; Keshavarz, H.
- Mixed methods in online evaluation: benefits and problems; 2008; Kuckartz, U.
- Use of the Internet as a data collection tool: a methodological investigation of online synchronous...; 2008; Evans, A. R., Elford, J., Wiggins, D.
- How can we convince the general public to respond to internet surveys?; 2008; Dillman, D. A.
- Nonresponse in web surveys within the context of survey errors and survey costs; 2008; Berzelak, N., Lozar Manfreda, K., Vehovar, V.
- The accuracy of online surveys with non-probability samples; 2008; Krosnick, J. A.
- The Danish time use and consumption survey 2008/9 - preliminary experiencies from applying a combined...; 2008; Bonke, J.
- On the feasibility of collecting biomarker data in an internet panel; 2008; Avendano, M., Mackenbach, J.
- Exploring the use of visual analog scales in web surveys; 2008; Couper, M. P.
- Internet access and cognitive ability: analysis of selectivity of internet interviews in the cognitive...; 2008; Willis, B.