Initial returns on mail questionnaires: A literature review and research note

作者: Joseph L. Horowitz , William E. Sedlacek

DOI: 10.1007/BF00991782

关键词: Educational researchMedical educationManagementResearch methodologyHigher educationPersonalizationInitial ratePsychology

摘要: The effects of method reproduction, status researcher, and personalization signature on the initial rate return mail questionnaires were investigated, using a one-page combination cover letter questionnaire mailed to 600 professors at University Maryland, College Park. levels each experimental variable were: Status — professor, graduate student; hand signed in ink, mimeographed facsimile; reproduction typed, photocopied, mimeographed.

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