How Important are High Response Rates for College Surveys?
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2017
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The Review of Higher Education
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Higher education researchers have witnessed a long term decline in college student survey participation. However, survey methodologists have found that low response rates do not necessarily bias results. We investigated whether this proposition holds true for a college student survey by performing a level of effort analysis on 555 survey administrations that achieved a response rate of at least 50 percent. Using five quantitative measures, we found that population estimates, derived from a simulated sample with a low response rate, frequently are very similar to those based on actual high response rates.
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Response Rates, Non-response Bias, Student Engagement, National Survey of Student Engagement, Survey Research
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Fosnacht, K. & Sarraf, S. & Howe, E. & Peck, L. K. "How Important are High Response Rates for College Surveys?" The Review of Higher Education, vol. 40 no. 2, 2017, pp. 245-265.
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doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2017.0003
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