Predicting Dropout Rates for Students Completing Online Surveys
An upcoming paper in Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking examines participant drop out rates in online surveys. I even made a handy chart!
Category: research methods
Why Educators and Hackers Don’t Mix
I began today by drafting a comment response to this article by Rey Junco about “why educators must become hackers,” but after I started writing, it became obvious that this deserved a much more complete response.
Cheating Base Rates
One of the most difficult aspects of studying cheating on selection/promotion/training tests and otherwise dishonest behavior in either work or school is figuring out what percentage of employees/students actually engage in such behavior.
Studying Virtual Economies
A recent article in Newsweek discussed the use of online games like Farmville and virtual worlds like Second Life for studying human behavior when buying and selling goods, a field called behavioral economics. Consider...
Scientific Research in Organizations
What is scientific research and how is it used in real organizations? What barriers are there to the use of ivory tower research in the real world?