scholarly journals Assessing Survey Satisficing: The Impact of Unmotivated Questionnaire Responding on Data Quality

2021 ◽  
pp. 0013189X2110400
Author(s):  
Christine Calderon Vriesema ◽  
Hunter Gehlbach
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Student Surveys ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Impact

Education researchers use surveys widely. Yet, critics question respondents’ ability to provide high-quality responses. As schools increasingly use student surveys to drive local policy making, respondents’ (lack of) motivation to provide quality responses may threaten the wisdom of using questionnaires for data-based decision making. To better understand student satisficing—the practice of suboptimal responding on surveys—and its impact on data quality, we examined its pervasiveness and impact on a large-scale social–emotional learning survey administered to 409,721 elementary and secondary students. Findings indicated that despite the prevalence of satisficing, its impact on data quality appeared more modest than anticipated. We conclude by outlining an accessible approach for defining and calculating satisficing for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.

scholarly journals Assessing Survey Satisficing: The Impact of Unmotivated Questionnaire Responding on Data Quality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Calderon Vriesema ◽  
Hunter Gehlbach
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Emotional Learning ◽  
Emotional Learning ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Student Surveys ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Impact

Education researchers use surveys widely. Yet, critics question respondents’ ability to provide high-quality responses. As schools increasingly use student surveys to drive local policymaking, respondents’ (lack of) motivation to provide quality responses may threaten the wisdom of using questionnaires for data-based decision-making. To better understand student satisficing—the practice of sub-optimal responding on surveys—and its impact on data quality, we examined its pervasiveness and impact on a large-scale social-emotional learning survey administered to 409,721 elementary and secondary students. Findings indicated that despite the prevalence of satisficing, its impact on data quality appeared more modest than anticipated. We conclude by outlining an accessible approach for defining and calculating satisficing for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.

The Early Post-Stalin Succession Struggle and Upheavals in East-Central Europe: Internal-External Linkages in Soviet Policy Making (Part 1)

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Soviet Policy ◽  
External Events ◽  
The Impact

The death of Josif Stalin was followed by momentous changes in the Soviet bloc. Part 1 of this two-part article considers how and why these changes came about, looking at the interaction between domestic and external events. It explores the nature of Soviet decision making, the impact of events in East-Central Europe, the implementation of Moscow's new policy, and the use of Soviet troops to put down a large-scale uprising in East Germany. Politics, Power, and U.S. Policy in Iran, 1950–1953

Deliberazione e conflitto: evidenze da un'analisi comparata

2012 ◽  
pp. 79-105
Author(s):  
Gianfranco Pomatto ◽  
Stefania Ravazzi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Industrial Waste ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Living Will ◽  
Constructive Approach ◽  
Deliberative Process ◽  
Small Plant ◽  
Deliberative Processes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The article aims at analyzing the impact of deliberation on the dynamics of the conflicts in the policy making processes. We shall argue whether and how deliberation succeeds in stopping the typical escalation of the conflicts, lowering protests, generating more open-minded institutional decisions, reducing stereotypes and developing a new constructive approach in decision making. The analysis is based on the comparison of three recent cases of deliberative processes dealing with conflictual issues: a deliberative process on the hypothesis to write a bill regulating the use and power of the living will; a public debate on a new highway stretch in the city of Genova; a citizens' jury on the building of a small plant to dispose of industrial waste in the small tuscan town of Castelfranco.

scholarly journals What role should randomized control trials play in providing the evidence base for conservation?

Oryx ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin L. Pynegar ◽  
James M. Gibbons ◽  
Nigel M. Asquith ◽  
Julia P. G. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Randomized Control Trials ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Bolivian Andes ◽  
Behavioural Effects ◽  
Randomized Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Conservation Interventions

AbstractThe effectiveness of many widely used conservation interventions is poorly understood because of a lack of high-quality impact evaluations. Randomized control trials (RCTs), in which experimental units are randomly allocated to treatment or control groups, offer an intuitive way to calculate the impact of an intervention by establishing a reliable counterfactual scenario. As many conservation interventions depend on changing people's behaviour, conservation impact evaluation can learn a great deal from RCTs in fields such as development economics, where RCTs have become widely used but are controversial. We build on relevant literature from other fields to discuss how RCTs, despite their potential, are just one of a number of ways to evaluate impact, are not feasible in all circumstances, and how factors such as spillover between units and behavioural effects must be considered in their design. We offer guidance and a set of criteria for deciding when RCTs may be an appropriate approach for evaluating conservation interventions, and factors to consider to ensure an RCT is of high quality. We illustrate this with examples from one of the few concluded RCTs of a large-scale conservation intervention: an incentive-based conservation programme in the Bolivian Andes. We argue that conservation should aim to avoid a rerun of the polarized debate surrounding the use of RCTs in other fields. Randomized control trials will not be feasible or appropriate in many circumstances, but if used carefully they can be useful and could become a more widely used tool for the evaluation of conservation impact.

Feminist Perspectives on Foreign Policy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie D'Aoust
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Impact

Foreign policy analysis (FPA) deals with the decision-making processes involved in foreign policy-making. As a field of study, FPA overlaps international relations (IR) theory and comparative politics. Studies that take into account either sex, women, or gender contribute to the development of knowledge on and about women in IR, which is in itself one of the goals of feminist scholarship. There are two main spheres of feminist inquiries when it comes to foreign policy: the role of women as sexed power holders involved in decision-making processes and power-sharing in the realm of foreign policy-making, and the role of gendered norms in the conduct and adoption of foreign policies. Many observers insist that feminism and foreign policy are linked only by a marriage of convenience, designed to either acknowledge the political accomplishments of women in the sphere of foreign policy such as Margaret Thatcher and Indira Ghandi, or bring attention to so-called “women’s issues,” such as reproduction rights and population control. Scholarship on women and/or gender in relation to foreign policy covers a wide range of themes, such as the role of women as political actors in decision-making processes and organizational structures; women’s human rights and gender mainstreaming; the impact of various foreign policies on women’s lives; and the concept of human security and the idea of women’s rights as a valid foreign policy objective. Three paradigms that have been explored as part of the study of women in comparative politics and IR are behavioralism, functionalism, and rational choice theory.

Antimicrobial prescribing for hospital-acquired pneumonia

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Tim Felton ◽  
Dan Wootton
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Antibiotic Prescribing ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Antimicrobial Prescribing ◽  
High Quality Evidence ◽  
Hospital Acquired Pneumonia ◽  
Hospital Acquired ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Inform Decision Making ◽  
Quality Evidence

The impact of hospital-acquired pneumonia and the pressure to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescribing has lead to the publication of prescribing guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. This editorial gives an overview of the guidelines and emphasises the need for more high-quality evidence to inform decision making in this group of patients.

Consumers' perceptions of personal decision-making: Its relation to cognitive dissonance

2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Brijball
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
External Influence ◽  
Correct Decision ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Significant Percentage ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Personal Decision

The study assesses consumers' perceptions of their personal decision-making ability and process. The empirical analysis was undertaken on a sample of 200 new motor vehicle consumers. The results indicate that the majority of the consumers displayed confidence in the decisions they took, believing they engaged in high quality and correct decision-making and were able to conclude good deals. The majority of consumers indicated that they were not influenced by external others and were not anxious during decision-making, although a significant percentage reported the impact of external influence and anxiety during purchases. Opsomming In hierdie studie word verbruikers se waameming van hulle eie besluitnemingsvermoe en proses geevalueer. Die empiriese ontleding is uitgevoer op n steekproefvan 200 eienaars van nuwe voertuie. Dit blyk uit die resultate, dat die meerderheid verbruikers vertroue gehad het in hulle besluitnemingsproses, dat hulle besluite korrek was en dat hulle n lonende transaksie beklink het. Die meerderheid het aangedui dat hulle nie beihvloed is deur eksteme invloede nie en dat hulle nie anstig was tydens die besluitnemingsproses nie, alhoewel n betekenisvolle persentasie van verbruikers wel hierdie invloede en angstigheid gedurende die aankoop ervaar het.

The Impact of Data Quality Tags on Decision-Making Outcomes and Process

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosanne Price ◽  
◽  
Graeme Shanks ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
The Impact

Trends and Perspectives of PRC's Energy Policy Making Institutions and Policies

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-124
Author(s):  
Chulwon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Policy Decision Making ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
The Impact

The future direction of China's approach to energy policy making is, of course, difficult to predict. This is due not only to the opaque and fragmented nature of Chinese energy policy decision-making, but also to the fact that energy policy is a new topic for China's leaders and the individuals they rely on for advice to master that impinges on the interests of actors throughout the Chinese bureaucracy. The wide range of participants in the energy policy debate indicates that more diversified views on it probably reach the top leadership. The impact of the multiplicity of opinions is two-fold. It can result in more informed decision-making, but it can also delay the process as decision makers must assess a larger number of competing and sometimes contradictory views.

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