Re: Recommendation?

2000-07-12 Thread Glen Barnett
Michael Atherton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I will be applying for faculty positions in Education this year and I was wondering if any one can recommend departments where alternative views on education (i.e., non-constructivist) are

Re: On-line survey

2000-07-12 Thread Kai Arzheimer
ZUMA has recently set up a task force for investigating the possibilities of Online Research. Maybe they can give you advice and pointers to further information. Try http://www.or.zuma-mannheim.de/ (they offer an abstract of their pages + contact information in English). Regards, Kai Arzheimer

Re: Recommendation?

2000-07-12 Thread Michael Atherton
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --3DCA7812C6FB3A253B9F4B5D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes, but educational statisticians tend to be more conservative than most educators and should be a good source for the type of

Re: Recommendation?

2000-07-12 Thread Donald Burrill
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Michael Atherton wrote in part: ... If you do not believe this is true, please refer to the attached bibliography. I take it this refers to the MSWord document, which was not attached but embedded in the mail message. It's annoying enough to receive attachments that are

Re: bivariate normality and correlation

2000-07-12 Thread Donald Burrill
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Znarf Akfak wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald Burrill) wrote: To whom, for what purpose(s) ? The "several bivariate associations" part rather suggests that you'll want to be making comparisons, implicitly if not explicitly; and even if you don't, readers

Re: Recommendation?

2000-07-12 Thread Ken Kortge
Boy, there's a stereotype. Statistician = Conservative Michael Atherton wrote: Yes, but educational statisticians tend to be more conservative than most educators and should be a good source for the type of recommendation that I am seeking. The issue of educational philosophy should be

Re: On-line survey

2000-07-12 Thread Johannes Hartig
If you can use cgi-scripts on your server, you can use "CGI2SPSS", which is free for non-commercial use and available under http://www.uni-jena.de/svw/metheval/projekte/evaluation/CGI2SPSS/ I have a student who would like to collect data using a survey form on the internet. He would like to

Re: On-line survey

2000-07-12 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Dale Berger wrote: I have a student who would like to collect data using a survey form on the internet. He would like to have data collected in a format that can be imported easily into SPSS. Why? Once the data collection process has been contaminated this thoroughly, by a

Re: Recommendation?

2000-07-12 Thread Michael Atherton
Donald Burrill wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Michael Atherton wrote in part: ... If you do not believe this is true, please refer to the attached bibliography. I take it this refers to the MSWord document, which was not attached but embedded in the mail message. It's annoying enough to

Re: On-line survey

2000-07-12 Thread Johannes Hartig
(please ignore previous posting) snip Internet users are not a random sample of any other population. Internet users who browse to a given site are not a random sample of internet users. And internet users who bother to fill out a form are not a random sample of anything. Your

Re: On-line survey

2000-07-12 Thread Johannes Hartig
"Robert J. MacG. Dawson" wrote: snip Internet users are not a random sample of any other population. Internet users who browse to a given site are not a random sample of internet users. And internet users who bother to fill out a form are not a random sample of anything. Your

Re: On-line survey

2000-07-12 Thread dennis roberts
the main problem of course ... with online surveys ... or, with any other 'kind of convenient' surveys ... is to whom do you generalize the results? the notion is simple in inference ... our sample is meant to tell us something about THE population that we want to generalize the findings TO