Targeting undergraduate students for surveys: Lessons from the Academic Pathways of People Learning Engineering Survey (APPLES)

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Donaldson, Krista M ^a   Chen, Helen L ^a   Toye, George ^a   Sheppard, Sheri D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross sectional study; Engineering persistence; Recruitment; Survey methodology

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES; ENGINEERING PERSISTENCE; LESSONS LEARNED; MULTI-SITE; PERSISTENCE IN ENGINEERING; RECRUITMENT; RESPONSE RATES; SAMPLING PLANS; STUDENT GROUPS; SURVEY DESIGN; SURVEY METHODOLOGY; SURVEY RESEARCH; UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; STUDENTS; SURVEYS; TEACHING; TECHNOLOGY;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 50049092394     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2007.4418168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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