The Reliability of the Minnesota Vocational Follow-Up Student Questionnaire [electronic resource] / David J. Pucel and Jeffrey T. Luftig.
An assessment of the reliability of the followup questionnaire given to 715 graduates of the postsecondary Minnesota Area Vocational-Technical Institutes is presented. The questionnaire was designed to gather information that would facilitate decision making concerning vocational programs. Reliabili...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | An assessment of the reliability of the followup questionnaire given to 715 graduates of the postsecondary Minnesota Area Vocational-Technical Institutes is presented. The questionnaire was designed to gather information that would facilitate decision making concerning vocational programs. Reliability was based on the consistency of group responses which are categorized according to their rate of response: early-returners, intermediate-returners, and late-returners. A random sample from each of the three groups was given the followup questionnaire for a second time one week after they completed the questionnaire originally. Data from separate items in the questionnaire were analyzed based on the original and duplicate responses of each group using the following methods: chi-square, perdent of overlap, degrees of freedom, and significance level. The analyses revealed that the data gathered from the student followup questionnaire were sufficiently reliable to be used as a source of information. However, some items indicated less reliability and included those which required students to judge the training curriculum, school and community services, and items relative to salary and number of months employed. A copy of the questionnaire and 21 tables which present the crosstabulation of original and duplicate responses are appended. (Author/EC) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED120472. Sponsoring Agency: Minnesota State Dept. of Education, St. Paul. Div. of Vocational and Technical Education. Educational level discussed: Postsecondary Education. |
| Physical Description: | 50 p. |