Recruitment strategies should not be randomly selected: empirically improving recruitment success and diversity in developmental psychology research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret C. Moulson ◽  
Nicole Andrea Sugden
Keyword(s):  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Developmental Research ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
Potential Participant ◽  
White Families ◽  
Recruitment Success ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Families With Children

Psychological and developmental research have been critiqued for the lack of diversity of research samples. Because differences in culture, race, and ethnicity can influence participant behavior, limited diversity limits the generalizability of the findings. These differences may also impact how participants behave in response to recruitment attempts, which suggests that recruitment itself may be leveraged to increase sample diversity. The goal of the current study was to determine what factors, within a recruitment interaction, could be leveraged to increase success and diversity when recruiting families with children for developmental research. Study 1 found three factors influenced success: (1) recruitment was more successful when other potential participants were also interested (i.e., recruiters were busy), (2) recruiters of particular races were more successful than recruiters of other races, and (3) differences in success were related to what the recruiter said to engage the potential participant (i.e., the script). The latter two factors interacted, suggesting some recruiters were using less optimal scripts. To improve success rates, study 2 randomly assigned scripts to recruiters and encouraged them to recruit more vigorously during busy periods. Study 2 found that two factors influenced success: (1) some scripts were more successful than others and (2) we were more successful at recruiting non-White potential participants than White participants. These two interacted, with some scripts being more successful with White and other scripts being more successful with non-White families. This intervention significantly increased recruitment success rate by 8.1% and the overall number of families recruited by 15.3%. These findings reveal that empirically evaluating and tailoring recruitment efforts based on the most successful strategies is effective in boosting diversity through increased participation of children from non-White families.

scholarly journals Recruitment strategies should not be randomly selected: empirically improving recruitment success and diversity in developmental psychology research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret C. Moulson ◽  
Nicole Andrea Sugden
Keyword(s):  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Developmental Research ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
Potential Participant ◽  
White Families ◽  
Recruitment Success ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Families With Children

Psychological and developmental research have been critiqued for the lack of diversity of research samples. Because differences in culture, race, and ethnicity can influence participant behavior, limited diversity limits the generalizability of the findings. These differences may also impact how participants behave in response to recruitment attempts, which suggests that recruitment itself may be leveraged to increase sample diversity. The goal of the current study was to determine what factors, within a recruitment interaction, could be leveraged to increase success and diversity when recruiting families with children for developmental research. Study 1 found three factors influenced success: (1) recruitment was more successful when other potential participants were also interested (i.e., recruiters were busy), (2) recruiters of particular races were more successful than recruiters of other races, and (3) differences in success were related to what the recruiter said to engage the potential participant (i.e., the script). The latter two factors interacted, suggesting some recruiters were using less optimal scripts. To improve success rates, study 2 randomly assigned scripts to recruiters and encouraged them to recruit more vigorously during busy periods. Study 2 found that two factors influenced success: (1) some scripts were more successful than others and (2) we were more successful at recruiting non-White potential participants than White participants. These two interacted, with some scripts being more successful with White and other scripts being more successful with non-White families. This intervention significantly increased recruitment success rate by 8.1% and the overall number of families recruited by 15.3%. These findings reveal that empirically evaluating and tailoring recruitment efforts based on the most successful strategies is effective in boosting diversity through increased participation of children from non-White families.

The Importance Of Decision Confidence To Strategy Outcomes

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phani Tej Adidam ◽  
R. Prasad Bingi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Strategic Marketing ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
Font Size ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Critical Variable ◽  
Decision Confidence

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: Batang; font-size: x-small;">Strategic marketing researchers are of the view that formulating high quality strategies is sufficient for achieving high strategy success rates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>This research study investigates the effect of key organizational and managerial variables on the outcome of strategies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>In particular, the study includes, decision confidence, a hitherto neglected variable in the strategy literature, as an additional, and critical, variable that affects the success of marketing strategies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>This study attempts to establish a bridge between two main streams of literature in the strategy discipline--strategic marketing and decision making. </span></p>

Response To Intervention: Research And Practice

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
Carol Hall ◽  
Jamie Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
Service Model ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Reported Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Demonstration School

Responseto Intervention (RTI) is a service model designed to meet the learning needs ofstudents prior to diagnosis and placement in special education settings. Results of a quantitative quasi-experimentalresearch study to investigate the relationship between the RTI plan andself-reported implementation practices among general education elementaryteachers in a Florida school district using analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealedno significant difference between demonstration school and comparable schoolgeneral education teachers self-reported practices, self-reported implementation success rates, orself-reported data collection responsibilities.Recommendations for professional development opportunities for allteachers, paraprofessionals, and administrators involved in the RTI process basedupon analyzed research study data are included.

scholarly journals Examining the Relationship between Selfies, Adolescents and Archetypes: The Psychology of Taking Selfies and their Consequences on the Adolescent Self-Conscious

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 260-271
Author(s):  
Petro van der Merwe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Theoretical Implication ◽  
Observation Methods ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Current Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Looking Glass ◽  
Collection Methods

This study explores the attitudes of adolescents in South Africa towards selfie-taking as well as the effects that the selfie has on the consciousness of their shadow. The aim is to contribute to understanding the current impact of this phenomenon on adolescents. Social media, through the use of selfies, can encourage self-promotion and create an obsession with one’s physical appearance. Adolescents mostly shape their self-concepts based on their understanding of how others view them. The informants comprised 58 learners from three secondary schools in Tshwane (Gauteng). The data collection methods used were semistructured interviews and observation methods. This research study resonates with the looking-glass-self perspective, which highlights the importance of the evaluation of others to the development of the self-conscious. Technology constantly evolves and grows, a theoretical implication of which is the need to continue exploring selfies as a means for the search of identity. Regardless, in raising the question of what selfies, adolescents, and archetypes have in common, this article succeeds in bringing together this rather recent concept, the area of scientific enquiry related to selfies, and a psychological construct coined by the founder of analytical psychology, Jung, that is so well established in the sciences and steeped in thoughts of wisdom that it has stood the test of time. In doing so, the article taps into not only developmental psychology but also social psychology and sociology, the study of human social relationships.

scholarly journals Teacher Education in Light of a Few Principles, Theories, and Studies on Vocational Training and Adult Education

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Mayen
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Railroad Transportation ◽  
Work Psychology ◽  
Continuing Vocational Training ◽  
And Training

The objective of this article is to critically examine teacher education based on the concepts, principles, and practices of adult education, vocational training, and continuing vocational training. We will discuss a few aspects of teacher education from the perspective of our research and our theoretical frames of reference, touching on the fields of initial and continuing vocational training, as well as adult education, work psychology, and developmental psychology (Pastré, Mayen, & Vergnaud, 2006, Mayen, 2007). We will also draw from a research study on professional work and training in very different sectors: railroad transportation, public works, agriculture, human services, technical-commercial services, guidance, and orientation. This allows us to examine teaching in the light of what we know of other forms of work, and teacher education in the light of what we know of vocational training and adult education.

Conflict and Politics and Information Systems Failure

2003 ◽  
pp. 104-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leoni Warne
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Information Systems Development ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
It Managers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Systems Failure

Managing the power, politics and organizational conflict inherent in information systems is increasingly recognized as being of critical importance to successful information systems development. The focus of this chapter is the extent to which conflict among participants in an information systems development may be said to contribute to project failure. The chapter describes a research study that explores the nature of conflict in an information systems development and the extent to which conflict may be perceived to impact on the successful progress of a project. In particular, the study was designed to determine which type of conflict (i.e., conflict between which type of stakeholders) may pose the most risk to an information systems development and to determine to what extent conflict can be said to be a contributing factor to information systems failure. The study was structured into three distinct stages. The first stage was a major case study conducted to explore the nature of conflict in a prematurely terminated information systems development and to probe the extent to which conflict was perceived to pose a risk to information systems projects. The second stage involved surveying IT Managers to test the wider applicability of the case study findings. The third and final stage involved developing a predictive model of conflict showing the relative weighting of each of the variables investigated, using logistic regression. The most significant outcome of the study was that information systems developments can be detrimentally affected by the impact of conflict among users who have commissioned or will use the system. Managing and resolving conflict in an information systems environment is clearly a difficult, challenging and time-consuming exercise, but the findings of this research study suggest that the rewards, in terms of higher success rates, should be worth the commitment.

Effects of Age and Level of Work Experience on Occurrence of Accidents

1995 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 931-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Marie Cellier ◽  
Hélène Eyrolle ◽  
Annick Bertrand
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Different Levels

Results of a research study on the effects of age and work experience and their interaction on the occurrence of accidents in an agro-food sector are described. Three different levels of experience and six age groups were examined. Age and work experience significantly affected frequency and seriousness of accidents. A study of these two factors jointly shows that considerably higher rates of frequency and seriousness are found for the youngest and oldest subjects with low work experience. These analyses enable us to put forward several hypotheses concerning the mechanisms in the occurrence of accidents.

Configural Frequency Analysis as a Statistical Tool for Developmental Research

1985 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustav A. Lienert ◽  
Hans Zur Oeveste
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Analysis ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Multiple Choice ◽  
Developmental Research ◽  
Statistical Tool ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
Configural Frequency Analysis ◽  
Multiple Choice Items ◽  
Developmental Analysis

Configural frequency analysis (CFA) is suggested as a technique for longitudinal research in developmental psychology. Stability and change in answers to multiple choice items and in Yes-No item-patterns obtained with measurements repeated two or three times are identified by CFA and illustrated by developmental analysis of an item from Gorham's Proverb Test.

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