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Autor:
Michael E. Whitcomb
Publikováno v:
Academic Medicine. 95:340-343
No new MD-granting medical schools were established during the 1980s and 1990s due to concerns that existed within the academic and policymaking communities that the United States was going to experience a major oversupply of physicians in the coming
Autor:
Michael E. Whitcomb
Publikováno v:
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 91(5)
There is growing recognition within the medical education community that medical education in this country needs to be changed to better prepare doctors for the challenges they will face in providing their patients high-quality medical care. A compet
Autor:
Michael E. Whitcomb, Stephen R. Porter
Publikováno v:
Public Opinion Quarterly. 71:635-648
This paper investigates the impact of paper and email contacts on web survey response rates. We use six combinations of paper and email prenotifications and reminders to test the impact of mixed mode contacts. In addition, we use two survey samples t
Autor:
Michael E. Whitcomb
Publikováno v:
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 20:356-364
Family medicine stands at a critical point in its history. To achieve a place of enhanced prominence within American medicine, the discipline must acknowledge the fundamental changes that have occurred in the country's health care system in recent de
Autor:
Stephen R. Porter, Michael E. Whitcomb
Publikováno v:
Social Science Computer Review. 23:380-387
This article investigates the effect of e-mail subject lines on survey viewing and survey response. Using two samples of students (low involvement with the survey sponsor and high involvement with the survey sponsor), the authors tested a variety of
Autor:
Stephen R. Porter, Michael E. Whitcomb
Publikováno v:
Research in Higher Education. 46:127-152
What causes a student to participate in a survey? This paper looks at participation across multiple surveys to understand survey non-response; by using multiple surveys we minimize the impact of survey salience. Students at a selective liberal arts c
Autor:
Michael E. Whitcomb, Stephen R. Porter
Publikováno v:
Social Science Computer Review. 22:370-376
A web survey of high school students was used to understand how the visual design of the e-mail contact affects survey response. Respondents were contacted with one of six e-mail designs that varied by format (text vs. HTML), color of background (whi
Publikováno v:
New Directions for Institutional Research. 2004:63-73
This chapter reviews the literature on survey fatigue and summarizes a research project that indicates that administering multiple surveys in one academic year can significantly suppress response rates in later surveys.
Autor:
Stephen R. Porter, Michael E. Whitcomb
Publikováno v:
New Directions for Institutional Research. 2004:51-62
A controlled experiment is used in a survey of high school students to investigate the effect on response rates of prizes awarded for responding to a survey.
Autor:
Stephen R. Porter, Michael E. Whitcomb
Publikováno v:
Research in Higher Education. 44:389-407
Lottery incentives are widely used by institutional researchers despite a lack of research documenting the effectiveness of postpaid incentives in general and lottery incentives in particular. A controlled experiment tested the effects of lottery inc