Participant sampling

This database covers resources on issues regarding the selection of learners to participate in TEL studies and evaluations - includes methods in which groups of learners are compared or whose learning is tracked and assessed as well as single learner studies.

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Title/Author(s)/Date  Description  Type/URL 
1 Planning Educational Research: Determining the Necessary Sample Size. Olejnik, S.F. (1984) Journal of Experimental Education Discusses factors to be considered when estimating sample sizes for participants in educational hypothesis testing research. journal paper
2 How Many Subjects Do I Need for a Statistically Valid Survey? Gardner-Bonneau, D. (1998) Usability Interface journal Discusses power analysis for sample size estimation for social surveys online paper
3 Samples in applied psychology: Over a decade of research in review. Winny, S. et al. (2011) J. of Applied Psychology article Reviews sample sizes etc of articles published in JAP 1995-2008 "....On the basis of study results, recommendations are provided for authors, editors, and readers, which converge on 3 themes: (a) appropriateness and match between sample characteristics and research questions, (b) careful consideration of statistical power, and (c) the increased popularity of quantitative synthesis. Implications are discussed in terms of theory building, generalizability of research findings, and statistical power to detect effects. > URL
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research_planning/participant_sampling.txt · Last modified: 2011/03/22 22:28 by manuela