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Methods of administration

2014· book· en· W2766484729 on OpenAlexaff
David L. Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman, John Cairney

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicOnline and Blended Learning
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRespondentPersonalizationThe InternetComputer sciencePsychologyMultimediaInternet privacyWorld Wide WebPolitical science

Abstract

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Abstract There are many different ways a scale can be administered. These include face-to-face interviews, questionnaires which are mailed to the respondent, those administered over the telephone, and those presented via the Internet. This chapter discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each, and how changes in technology, such as the increasing use of mobile phones, are affecting factors such as response rate. The chapter summarizes different techniques for increasing the response rate, such as rewards, advance notification, personalization of the covering letter, keeping the questionnaire short, and follow-ups. It also discusses new approaches to administering scales, such as the use of smart phones and video technology. Finally, it mentions some of the difficulties that may be encountered when paper-and-pencil scales are administered over the Web.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.028
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.077
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.166
Threshold uncertainty score0.556

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0280.077
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0050.004
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0050.002
Open science0.0040.004
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1660.065

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.440
Teacher spread0.400 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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