Study Methods for Student Surveys A3.1 Introduction We used two survey instruments to measure student outcomes from inquiry-based learning in undergraduate mathematics and to compare these outcomes between various student groups‚ in particular‚ between IBL and non-IBL students. The attitudinal survey was designed to detect the quality of and changes in students’ mathematical beliefs‚ affect‚ learning goals‚ and mathematical problem-solving strategies. The learning gains survey (SALG-M) measured students’
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Patient Satisfaction Patient satisfaction is at the core of patient centered medicine. Improved patient satisfaction not only leads to an enhanced patient experience—something every sick or injured patient deserves—it is also associated with improved treatment outcomes. Measuring and reporting on patient satisfaction with health care has become a major industry. Background Patient satisfaction is a widely used health care quality metric. However‚ the relationship between patient satisfaction and health
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Nowadays‚ job satisfaction has become an important issue for workers since it closely relates to physical and mental well-being. In order to find out what makes work satisfying‚ Studs Terkel interviewed three workers about their jobs in 1974 and Ethan Winning did a survey about job satisfaction in 2004. According to their results and my observation‚ there are three main factors that affect the job satisfaction: Salary and special incentives from jobs‚ personal and professional growth opportunities
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Example of an Observational (Survey) Study Appel‚ S.J.‚ Harrell‚ J.S.‚ & Deng‚ S. (2002). Racial and socioeconomic differences in risk factors for cardiovascular disease among Southern rural women. Nursing Research‚ 51(3)‚ 140-147. The title appropriately indicates the target population sampled (Southern rural women)‚ as well as two key independent variables (race and socioeconomic status—inclusive of education and income) examined for their associations with risk of cardiovascular disease
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job satisfaction‚ organizational commitment and intention to quit. The population was the hotel staff in Thailand of which 908 were selected as subjects. The instrument used was a questionnaire with the reliability between 0.614-0.918. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the structural equation model was analyzed using SPSS and LISREL. The results revealed that the supervisors had higher levels of work life quality‚ perceived organizational culture‚ job satisfaction and organizational
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Contentment (or lack of it) arising out of interplay of employee’s positive and negative feelings toward his or her work. Job satisfaction has been defined as a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job;[1] an affective reaction to one’s job;[2] and an attitude towards one’s job.[3] Weiss (2002) has argued that job satisfaction is an attitude but points out that researchers should clearly distinguish the objects of cognitive evaluation which are affect (emotion)‚ beliefs
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Department of Justice ISP Survey Josiah Yarbrough CSIA 303/ Foundations of Information Systems Security June 27‚ 2015 Introduction All Americans will need to have working relationship with the DOJ‚ that is‚ the Department of Justice‚ at some point in their lives. The DOJ is the agency that enforces federal laws. In its mission statement it states that the mission is to “… ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling
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INTRODUCTION Ipomo Campus is the interactive learning platform using a mobile phone that creates a personalized‚ meaningful and interactive teaching- learning and evaluation experience. Each lecturer is provided with a mobile phone with Ipomo Campus software instead of attendance register for attendance and internal marks. Profile based login/password to lecturer‚ class teacher and principal to access relevant information/reports on the mobile or web. Ipomo Campus has been implemented in the
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Purpose The aim of this report is to present the findings of a survey carried out in order to determine the public opinion and performance of Lambshorne Town Council. The data included in this report was obtained from a random sample of 1‚000 people. Services On the whole‚ the ratepayers of Lambshorne expressed dissatisfaction with the services provided by the Council. A significant percentage felt that neither refuse collection nor recycling facilities are adequate‚ as illustrated by the
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for the same. Due to delay in the receipt of fans at Baroda factory salesperson were asked to do the market survey. During this period 2 salesperson left the job after collecting salaries of the previous 2 working months. QUESTIONS 1.What improvements do you suggest in the staffing process followed by the company ? 2.Was Sunil Kumar right in getting market surveys done by the new salespersons ? Answers Ans. 1 The improvements in the staffing
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