Online and traditional paper-and-pencil survey administration: examining experimenter presence, sensitive material and long surveys.

The present study examined response differences between paper-and-pencil versus computer administered surveys as a function of experimenter presence, survey length, and sensitive material, including sexuality-related measures. Three conditions were employed, one traditional supervised paper-and-penc...

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Publicado en:Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality Vol. 15; no. 3/4; pp. 147 - 156
Autores principales: Wood E, Nosko A, Desmarais S, Ross C, Irvine C
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: University of Toronto Press 2006
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          Wood E
          Nosko A
          Desmarais S
          Ross C
          Irvine C
        affil: Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON.
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          Research Methodology
          Surveys
          Asians
          Black Persons
          Comparative Studies
          Descriptive Statistics
          Female
          Hispanic Americans
          Male
          Multivariate Analysis of Variance
          Native Americans
          One-Way Analysis of Variance
          Psychological Tests
          Random Assignment
          Repeated Measures
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          Sample Size
          Statistical Significance
          Students, College
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      ab: The present study examined response differences between paper-and-pencil versus computer administered surveys as a function of experimenter presence, survey length, and sensitive material, including sexuality-related measures. Three conditions were employed, one traditional supervised paper-and-pencil condition, one online computer administration condition that was supervised, and one unsupervised online computer administration condition. Missing data were greatest in the paper-andpencil condition specifically at the end of this long survey in comparison to both online computer conditions. Of the four measures assessing sensitive material, more missing data were found in the paper-and-pencil condition but only for one measure assessing sensitive content. Researcher presence did not have an impact on performance. These findings have important implications for designing and interpreting survey outcomes.
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