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Colleagues, Which index of reliability do you use for two-item scales, and what is your justification for so doing? Respectfully, Ruth
09 September 2018 7,758 2 View
Most institutions of higher learning in America employ a much higher percentage (70%) of adjunct professors than at any other time in the history of higher education. Adjuncts are very poorly...
07 July 2018 7,174 7 View
PSPP is the free alternative to SPSS. It mirrors SPSS in procedures, output, etc., so there is no learning curve of which to speak. Schools are accepting this statistical program, so spread the...
02 February 2018 4,103 4 View
Colleagues, I only recently came across a free (yes, FREE!) statistical program that is described as "a program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It is a free as in freedom replacement for...
09 September 2017 3,485 0 View
What approach(es) do you take when constructing your research question? In other words, what is your method for choosing a research topic/project?
02 February 2017 1,876 2 View
Colleagues, Design and formatting of online survey questionnaires can (and do) result in poor response rates and/or poor quality data. An example of poor quality data might be lack of variability...
09 September 2016 6,786 9 View
Colleagues - What are your thoughts on including statistical formulae in dissertations? Thanks! Ruth
07 July 2016 9,220 4 View
The Technology, organization, and environment (TOE) framework was proposed by DePietro, Wiarda, & Fleischer (1990), yet in my research I keep seeing their work ascribed to Thornatzky and...
05 May 2016 4,358 0 View
Single-item scales have been used in many studies to measure constructs such as job satisfaction, personality traits, quality of life, self esteem, etc. How does one report on the reliability and...
09 September 2015 9,566 27 View
Colleagues - How do I label items on a sub-scale that were first (1) reversed scored by recoding into a different variable, (2) then were averaged (using the Transform > Compute, etc)? Do I use...
08 August 2014 4,868 9 View
Since 1977 MMR has be the choice method for analyzing interaction effects in the social sciences (Aguinis & Gottfredson, 2010). What problems might I expect to encounter when using categorical...
05 May 2014 253 5 View
I was just notified that Laerd Statistics has now made its site free to faculty. The sign up page is: https://statistics.laerd.com/academic.php This site provides all (or most) of the statistical...
05 May 2014 8,831 9 View
Pedagogy is the art and science of educating children and a pedagogical approach is one that is teacher-centric. Andragogy is concerned with adult learners, their life situations (Merriam et al,...
05 May 2014 5,203 16 View
FLIP learning has been defined as “Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space, and the resulting...
05 May 2014 7,007 15 View
Academics and researchers are pressed by their institutions to publish or perish; however, it seems that researchers do the work and the publisher controls it and profits from their labor....
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