Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology Building a Bridge Between Disciplines (1984) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Designing and Building the Bridge
Appendix B: Designing and Building the Bridge
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to generate ideas for basic research, including research in the cognitive sciences using surveys as vehicles for experimentation and the collection of relevant data. In planning the seminar, the organizers made three basic decisions.
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The complete set of background materials, listed _ in Appendix C, was mailed to all participants early in May 1983. Of special significance were two papers prepared expressly for the CASH project: Cognitive Science and Survey Methodic by Roger Tourangeau and "Potential Contributions of Cognitive Sciences to Survey Questionnaire Desigan by Norman Bradburn and Catalina Danis (presented in Appendix A)
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The experience of being respondents in NHIS personal interviews gave the seminar participants a first-hand understanding of the nature and difficulty of the cognitive tasks required of respondents to that survey. Although these interviews were not part of the regular NHIS sample and were not included in the survey estimates, standard interview procedures were used except for a requirement that the seminar participant be one of the respondents to the core questions and that he or she be selected to respond to the supplemental questions on use of alcohol and tobacco.
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With minor exceptions, al' seminar participants attended the entire seminar. Several other people were invited to be guests at the seminar: they included representatives from the National Science Foundation, the National Center for Health Statistics, the Bureau of the Census, the Committee on National Statistics, and a university (see pp.
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The CASM chair, Judith Tanur, in response to a request, organized an invited paper session on cognitive aspects of survey methodology for the annual meeting of the American Statistical Association in August 1984. All of the regular participants in the St.
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Several other kinds of outreach were suggested in these discussions, including: -- publishing relevant articles in Journals read by cognitive scientists and predating papers at meetings of associations to which they belong; -- extending the dissemination process to international Journals and conferences, such as the 1985 meeting of the International Association of Survey Statisticians; -- arranging for appropriate Journals to publish special issues devoted to relevant themes, e.g., cognitive studies and survey research methods; -- when sufficient results are available from collaborative research studies, holding symposia in university nettings to present and discuss them; -- organizing a short course on cognitive aspects of surveys in conjunction with an annual meeting of the American Statistical Association; -- encouraging cognitive scientists interested in surveys as vehicles for research to attend courses in survey methods, e.g., the seamer course presented annually at the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan; -- preparing short annotated bibliographies (~) for survey researchers interested in learning about relevant aspects of the cognitive sciences and (2)
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Support for specific research plans or, when more research findings are available, for symposia, would, of course, be necessary. Thus' the formal aspects of the CASH project have been completed.
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