clustering for Categorizing Open-ended Survey Responses Nishantha Medagoda‚ Ruvan Weerasinghe University of Colombo School of Computing Sri Lanka nmedagoda@yahoo.com arw@ucsc.lk ABSTRACT Open ended questions are an essential and important part of survey questionnaires. They provide an opportunity for researchers to discover unanticipated information regarding the domain of study. However‚ they are problematic for processing since they are unstructured questions to which possible answers are not suggested
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Managed Services Douglas Medical Cen er New survey will attempt to correct several deficiencies from previous survey: Low response rate will be corrected by informing employees why the survey was needed‚ alleviating concerns regarding confidentiality‚ and informing employees what the information would be used for. Poor wording or metrics for the survey were going to be corrected by having senior management take the survey to provide input on how the survey was to take‚ and having several craft workers
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[pic] |Activity 3.4.4 Web Soil Survey | Introduction The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service operates a National Cooperative Soil Survey. The survey provides online access to soil data‚ maps‚ and information for more that ninety-five percent of the nation’s counties. Although an on-site soils investigation is often needed‚ the Web Soil Survey information can be useful when
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The survey consisted of twenty-seven questions that asked teachers to rate their knowledge‚ frequency‚ and ability to use or integrate technology into the daily curriculum. Teachers were asked to rate themselves using a scale of 1-5‚ with 5 always representing the highest knowledge‚ ability‚ frequency‚ or agreeance. Upon evaluation of the data‚ it is the evident that the teachers at East Elementary possess a range of technology skills. The first section of the survey consisted of seven
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STUDENT HOUSING SURVEY Understanding the process of questionnaire designing MM – II Case Presentation Group 5 • The real estate price hike threatening the student recruitments at Harvard – leading to 2001 survey • Harvard attempting to understand the consumer market for its housing complexes through new 2005 survey • Allston Initiative The Case in Brief Deciding the new research design for 2005 survey Analysing & drawing insights from the 2001 survey Merits/ Demerits
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Survey Report on the Relationship Between Extraversion and Subjective Well-Being Abstract Understanding how personality traits such as openness‚ extraversion‚ neuroticism‚ agreeableness‚ and conscientiousness affect subjective well-being has been constantly researched. These personality traits have been determined to have a correlational relationship with well-being. This study specifically looks at the trait of extraversion (energy‚ positive outlook‚ social behavior) and how it relates to well-being
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Experience Donna Marsman Psychology/230 April 23‚ 2011 Vicki Koenig Axia College of University of Phoenix The death of my mother is the event that has affected my life the most and changed my personality from a dependent to an independent person. The safety and security of her presence instilled in me a sense of peace throughout my life that I took for granted. My mother is my defense mechanism against the world. “A defense mechanism is an unconscious strategy of the ego that
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1. What political offices were black men elected to – and not elected to –during Reconstruction? federal office‚state office and local office 2. What issues most concerned black political leaders during Reconstruction? 3.Why were so many white southerners so opposed to black and white Republications exercising political power? 4. Were black political leaders unqualified to hold office so soon after the end of slavery? 5. What did black political leaders accomplish and fail to
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According to the constraints of BRAZIL BEANS‚ I have incorporated the following checks in meeting all their requirements‚ please see Sheet1. “Each box ordered must contain 3 different types of beans”. In order to eliminate the error of selecting more than 3 types of beans‚ a pick list was designed in cells B3 to B5. Cells C3‚ D3 and E3 to Cells C5‚ D5 and E5 are also link to a Match function which selects the right Weight‚ Cost and Sale Price from “BRAZIL BEANS sheet” as this prevents human intervention
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HOW SAMPLE SURVEYS GO WRONG Random sampling eliminates bias in choosing a sample and allows control of variability. So once we see the magic words “randomly selected” and “margin of error‚” do we know we have trustworthy information before us? It certainly beats voluntary response‚ but not always by as much as we might hope. Sampling in the real world is more complex and less reliable than choosing a Simple Random Sample (SRS) from a list of names in an exercise. Confidence statements do not reflect
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