Global trends in academic governance

Academe

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 31-34

  Cummings, William K ^a   Finkelstein, Martin ^a  

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EID: 73349110074     PISSN: 01902946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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1. The CAP survey was carried out 2007. For the purpose of this study, stratified cluster samples of professors were obtained in Portugal (PT), Italy (IT), Germany (DE), Finland (Fl), Norway (NO), the United Kingdom (UK), the United States (US), Canada (CA),Japan (JP), Korea (KO), Hong Kong (HK), China (CH), Malaysia (MA), Australia (AU), Brazil (BR), Mexico (ME), and Argentina (AE). The aim was to complete an "effective" sample of eight hundred professors in each country. Taking into account the design effect and expected response rates, country sample frames typically targeted from two thousand to four thousand faculty members. Some countries used mail surveys and others electronic surveys. Response rates were at least 20 percent, and in all countries comparisons of completed sample characteristics with population characteristics were satisfactory. In a few countries, weighting was introduced to improve these comparisons. Participating country teams agreed on a common instrument.