Cognitive Interviewing Practice
Cognitive Interviewing Practice

Author: Debbie Collins

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2014-11-10

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1473909171

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The use of the cognitive interviewing method for survey question testing has proliferated and evolved over the past 30 years. In more recent years the method has been applied to the evaluation of information letters and leaflets and to research consent forms. This book provides a practical handbook for implementing cognitive interviewing methods in the context of applied social policy research, based on the approach used by the authors at the NatCen Social Research (NatCen) where cognitive interviewing methods have been used for well over a decade. The book provides a justification for the importance of question testing and evaluation and discusses the position of cognitive interviewing in relation to other questionnaire development and evaluation techniques. Throughout the book, the focus is on providing practical and hands-on guidance around elements such as sampling and recruitment, designing probes, interviewing skills, data management and analysis and how to interpret the findings and use them to improve survey questions and other documents. The book also covers cognitive interviewing in different survey modes, in cross national, cross cultural and multilingual settings and discusses some other potential uses of the method.

Pediatric Epidemiology
Pediatric Epidemiology

Author: W. Kiess

Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers

Published: 2017-11-27

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 3318061239

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Pediatric epidemiology differs substantially from general epidemiology especially when it comes to ethical, developmental and societal aspects. This unique book addresses biological considerations and ethical and legal questions in dealing with pediatric and adolescent populations. Classic topics, such as how to recruit representative samples, how to deal with confounding variables, and how to work with genetic information are the core areas of the book are also in focus. Last but not the least, this volume adds to the current understanding of global trends in occurrence, transmission, and control of epidemic pediatric diseases. This book not only serves as a textbook for epidemiologists, pediatricians, geneticists, and child and public health specialists but is also a key reference for those embarking on pediatric cohort studies and epidemiological studies involving the pediatric population.

Risk evaluation and mitigation strategy assessments
Risk evaluation and mitigation strategy assessments

Author: Elizabeth B. Andrews

Publisher: RTI Press

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13:

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On May 3, 2012, the US Food and Drug Administration announced a public workshop to receive input on “survey methodologies and instruments that can be used to evaluate patients’ and health care providers’ knowledge about the risks of drugs marketed with an approved REMS [risk evaluation and mitigation strategy].” The FDA intended to use this input to help develop guidance to industry regarding best practices for such research. In the announcement to the meeting, entitled “Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) Assessments: Social Science Methodologies to Assess Goals Related to Knowledge: Public Workshop,” the FDA provided an issue paper summarizing experience with prior REMS assessment surveys and posing a series of questions for which input was requested from the workshop panel and public. RTI Health Solutions (RTI-HS) participated in the workshop by serving on the invited panel (Alicia Gilsenan and Karol Krotki), presenting to the panel (Kelly Hollis, Sandy Lewis, and Laurie Zografos), and submitting written responses to the FDA to the questions posed in the issues paper accompanying the meeting announcement. This paper provides a brief background and presents the written responses that RTI-HS submitted to the FDA, with modest revisions to add context and clarity to the response for a wider readership. We also briefly discuss upcoming US and European steps in this field.

Human Resource Management
Human Resource Management

Author: Talya Bauer

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2018-11-29

Total Pages: 729

ISBN-13: 150636313X

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Human resources is rapidly evolving into a data-rich field but with big data comes big decisions. The best companies understand how to use data to make strategic workforce decisions and gain significant competitive advantage. Human Resource Management: People, Data, and Analytics by Talya Bauer, Berrin Erdogan, David Caughlin, and Donald Truxillo introduces students to the fundamentals of talent management with integrated coverage of data analytics and how they can be used to inform and support decisions about people in an organization. Features tied to SHRM competencies and data exercises give readers hands-on opportunities to practice the analytical and decision-making skills they need to excel in today’s job market. Engaging examples illustrate key HRM concepts and theories, which brings many traditional HRM topics concepts to life. Whether your students are future managers or future HR professionals, they will learn best practices for managing talent across the lifecycle in the changing workplace.

Survey Development
Survey Development

Author: Tony Chiu Ming Lam

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-05-26

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1000862135

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Survey Development: A Theory-Driven Mixed Methods Approach provides both an overview of standard methods and tools for developing and validating surveys and a conceptual basis for survey development that advocates establishing and testing of hypotheses pertaining to presumptions and score-interpretation and use inferences and mixing quantitative and qualitative methods. The book has 14 chapters which are divided into four parts. Part A includes six chapters that deal with theory and methodology. Part B has five chapters and it gets into the process of constructing the survey using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Part C comprises two chapters devoted to assessing the quality or psychometric properties (reliability and validity) of survey responses. Finally, the one chapter in Part D is an attempt to present a synopsis of what was covered in the previous chapters in regard to developing a survey with the TDMM framework for developing survey and conducting survey research. This provides a full process for survey development intended to yield results that can support valid interpretation and use of scores. Including detailed online resources, this book is suitable for graduate students who use or are responsible for interpretation of survey research and survey data as well as survey methodologists and practitioners who use surveys in their field.

Advances in Comparative Survey Methods
Advances in Comparative Survey Methods

Author: Timothy P. Johnson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-09-24

Total Pages: 1139

ISBN-13: 1118884965

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Covers the latest methodologies and research on international comparative surveys with contributions from noted experts in the field Advances in Comparative Survey Methodology examines the most recent advances in methodology and operations as well as the technical developments in international survey research. With contributions from a panel of international experts, the text includes information on the use of Big Data in concert with survey data, collecting biomarkers, the human subject regulatory environment, innovations in data collection methodology and sampling techniques, use of paradata across the survey lifecycle, metadata standards for dissemination, and new analytical techniques. This important resource: Contains contributions from key experts in their respective fields of study from around the globe Highlights innovative approaches in resource poor settings, and innovative approaches to combining survey and other data Includes material that is organized within the total survey error framework Presents extensive and up-to-date references throughout the book Written for students and academic survey researchers and market researchers engaged in comparative projects, this text represents a unique collaboration that features the latest methodologies and research on global comparative surveys.