Event Title
Poster: Maximizing a Sample: A Report on the Efficacies of Using a Web-Based Survey Tool to Conduct Criminal Justice Research
Location
Moakley Atrium
Start Time
14-5-2008 2:40 PM
End Time
14-5-2008 4:00 PM
Description
The Internet has created innovative ways to conduct research. One can now download data from any number of criminal justice archives and conduct secondary analyses. There are also web-based programs from which one can design, create and disseminate surveys and that will allow one to store the data for analyses. Two advantages of such technology are that the sample, theoretically, can be big and that respondents may participate with their anonymity intact. This method of conducting surveys has the potential to reach a wide range of potential subjects and thus generate a large N. However, the disadvantages of using an online instrument includes issues of reliability, content validity, internal validity, external validity, selection bias and mortality. All are worrisome; all are genuine causes of concern. This poster will present survey results as well as a discussion of both the advantages and drawbacks of this methodology.
Poster: Maximizing a Sample: A Report on the Efficacies of Using a Web-Based Survey Tool to Conduct Criminal Justice Research
Moakley Atrium
The Internet has created innovative ways to conduct research. One can now download data from any number of criminal justice archives and conduct secondary analyses. There are also web-based programs from which one can design, create and disseminate surveys and that will allow one to store the data for analyses. Two advantages of such technology are that the sample, theoretically, can be big and that respondents may participate with their anonymity intact. This method of conducting surveys has the potential to reach a wide range of potential subjects and thus generate a large N. However, the disadvantages of using an online instrument includes issues of reliability, content validity, internal validity, external validity, selection bias and mortality. All are worrisome; all are genuine causes of concern. This poster will present survey results as well as a discussion of both the advantages and drawbacks of this methodology.