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A crucial resource for increasing response rates and obtaining high-quality feedback from mail, electronic, and other surveys

Don Dillman's Mail and Internet Surveys, Second Edition has been the definitive guide for creating and conducting successful surveys using both traditional and new media channels. Now, this special 2007 Update of the classic text features major additions covering the latest developments in online survey design and administration.

Like its predecessor, this resource lays out a complete, start-to-finish guide for determining the needs of a given survey, designing it, and effectively administering it. Drawing on social science, statistics, and proven best practices, Dillman's text discusses surveys for a variety of purposes, audiences, and situations.

New and updated material covers both the principles behind and directions for how to:

• Conduct Web surveys
• Visually design questionnaires
• Use paper mailed surveys

As insightful and practical as its classic original, Mail and Internet Surveys, Second Edition, 2007 Update is a crucial resource for any researcher seeking to increase response rates and obtain high-quality feedback from mail, electronic, and other self-administered surveys..
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Written and field-tested by practicing consultants, The Consultant’s Tool Kit will save consultants both time and money-as it makes their work with clients much more effective Each tool or activity is designed to solve a common consulting problem. Reproducible worksheets, exercises, and questionnaires are easily downloaded from the web and customized by consultants to fit the exact needs of each client—and help them effectively implement the solutions.

This collection of field-tested tools, customizable questionnaires, and techniques for working with clients provides crucial problem-solving help in areas such as:
• Managing and leading change
• Organizational initiatives
• Assessing team and organizational functioning
• Improving relationships between departments and business units
• Creative problem-solving techniques

Mel Silberman, Ph.D., (Princeton, NJ) is a best-selling author and editor. A professor of adult and organization development at Temple University, he is the author of Active Training..
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Since it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, Asking Questions has become a classic guide for designing questionnaires?the most widely used method for collecting information about peoples attitudes and behavior An essential tool for market researchers advertisers, pollsters, and social scientists, this thoroughly updated and definitive work combines time-proven techniques with the most current research, findings, and methods. The book presents a cognitive approach to questionnaire design and includes timely information on the Internet and electronic resources. Comprehensive and concise, Asking Questions can be used to design questionnaires for any subject area, whether administered by telephone, online, mail, in groups, or face-to-face. The book describes the design process from start to finish and is filled with illustrative examples from actual surveys..
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Complete coverage of the widely used 16PF?? measure of personality

Essentials of 16PF?? Assessment is a valuable guide to administering, scoring, and interpreting this popular measure of normal personality. Using the proven Essentials format, Cattell and Schuerger clearly describe how to use the instrument; provide critical information about its validity and reliability; and include helpful guidelines for using the instrument effectively with individuals, couples, and families, in settings ranging from clinical and forensic to corporate environments and other workplaces.

Essentials of 16PF?? Assessment provides comprehensive coverage of test administration, scoring, and interpretation. As well, this informative resource provides expert assessment of the method's relative strengths and weaknesses, valuable advice on its clinical applications, and illuminating sample cases.

Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book is designed to help busy professionals quickly acquire the knowledge and skills they need to make optimal use of a major psychological assessment inst rument. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you gauge and reinforce your understanding of the information covered..
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Book Two of the Ethnographer's Toolkit series provides the reader with an introduction to participant and non-participant observation, interviewing, and ethnographically informed survey research, including systematically administered structured interviews and questionnaires. These essential methods are the basic building blocks of data collection, providing researchers with tools to answer key questions: What's happening in this setting?; Who is engaging in what kind of activities?; and Why are they doing what they're doing? The authors describe when and how to use these basic techniques and offer numerous examples of how these methods have worked in community-based research, action research, participant action research and mixed method projects..
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"An extremely useful handbook for students and any newcomers to survey research "

--Network

Recent research has yielded many new clues about how survey questions "behave," and some of these findings have offered practical guidance for question writing. Volume 63 reviews this experimental literature and provides both general guiding principles and specific advice on how to develop a survey questionnaire, emphasizing the practical implications of the experience and research of questionnaire designers. The authors also suggest a number of ways in which to make pilot and pretest work more fruitful. The material is easily accessible, yet professionally sophisticated.

This volume should be useful to social scientists and others who design survey questionnaires.

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This unique collection of tools for primary care clinicians features over 230 forms, scales, and inventories to use or adapt for routine or specialized exams. Designed to save time and assist busy practitioners, Primary Care Tools for Clinicians guides standardized assessment and documentation a patient's condition by providing ready-to-use forms that represent the "gold standard" of current practice. Previously published rating scales and measures useful in primary care are also collected here within specialty focused chapters. An accompanying CD-ROM includes over 200 of the tools in electronic format, including 52 customizable forms that users can modify for their own practice. Lists of resources direct readers to further information on clinical topics or sources for additional forms and tools.

• A wide range of physical examination forms are included, such as histories and physicals across the lifespan, patient logs and records, sports physicals, psychiatric forms, nutrition forms, and other specialized exams.
• Over 140 developmental and pediatric tools, behavioral instruments, geriatric measures, quality of life and functional ability instruments, pain scales, wound classifications, nutrition assessment tools, system-specific measures, and social and spiritual rating scales are provided.
• Each tool is accompanied by a description and explanation of its uses, which includes the authors, sources, scoring, targeted populations, administration time, and reliability and validity where applicable.
• Extensive online resources and print references are provided for further information on proprietary measures, documentation support, professional organization recommendations, and government healthcare agency guidelines.
• Icons identify which forms can be adapted for use and which forms and measures can also be found in electronic format on the accompanying CD-ROM.
• Pages are perforated and 3-hole punched for easy tear-out, photocopying, customization, or placement into a binder.
• Over 200 forms and measures are included on an accompanying CD-ROM, 57 of which are customizable, and can be printed and copied for use in any office.

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The Marriage Checkup Questionnaire uses a Q and A format to help couples "take the temperature" of their marriage, discover its pluses and confront areas that may need more work. An excellent resource for pastors and counselors to streamline the counseling process or use in marriage enrichment seminars..
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