article · The Journal of Experimental Education · 1972

Faculty Evaluations by Randomized Response Sampling

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Abstract

Students taking part in faculty evaluations have a tendency to avoid questions which reveal too much about themselves when answered. Innocuous questions usually are answered truthfully. Questions that tend to stigmatize usually meet with resistence. Students will try to avoid questions that downgrade them in the eyes of the interviewer. These questions will go unanswered or they will be answered incorrectly. The randomized response model may be employed when evaluating teacher effectiveness. This technique helps eliminate the major causes of bias in sample surveys, that is, the refusal of the respondent to answer questions and incorrect answers. Randomized response allows the interviewee to give answers that furnish information on a probability basis. In that way the interviewer would know only the probability that the answer was true. Since this type of answer is is less revealing, this approach might encourage greater cooperation, better responses, and reduce evasive answer bias.

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APA 7

Smith, E. P., & Sosnowski, T. S. (1972). Faculty Evaluations by Randomized Response Sampling. The Journal of Experimental Education, 41(2), 70–72. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.1972.11011396

MLA 9

Smith, Ephraim P., and Tead S. Sosnowski. “Faculty Evaluations by Randomized Response Sampling.” The Journal of Experimental Education, vol. 41, no. 2, 1972, pp. 70–72, https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.1972.11011396.

Chicago

Smith, Ephraim P., and Tead S. Sosnowski. 1972. “Faculty Evaluations by Randomized Response Sampling.” The Journal of Experimental Education 41 (2): 70–72. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.1972.11011396.

Harvard

Smith, E.P. and Sosnowski, T.S. (1972) ‘Faculty Evaluations by Randomized Response Sampling’, The Journal of Experimental Education, 41(2), pp. 70–72. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.1972.11011396.

BibTeX

@article{smith1972faculty,
  title = {{Faculty Evaluations by Randomized Response Sampling}},
  author = {Smith, Ephraim P. and Sosnowski, Tead S.},
  journal = {The Journal of Experimental Education},
  volume = {41},
  number = {2},
  pages = {70--72},
  year = {1972},
  doi = {10.1080/00220973.1972.11011396}
}

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