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Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

Northern Michigan University

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2014

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Successive Study Of Diversity Conference Evaluations Of Presenters By Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation, And Disability, Autumn M. Palmer, Christine M. Wilson, Judith Puncochar Apr 2014

Successive Study Of Diversity Conference Evaluations Of Presenters By Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation, And Disability, Autumn M. Palmer, Christine M. Wilson, Judith Puncochar

Conference Presentations

A Midwestern university’s annual diversity conference hosts about 1,500 attendees from a campus of 9,000 students. Using a successive independent samples design, a series of cross-sectional surveys were conducted to answer the research question, how does a presenter’s race, gender, and ability/disability affect participant responses on conference evaluations. A review of the literature has determined that our research represents the largest and longest empirical study of a higher education diversity conference in the United States. The research is a comparative study of evaluation trends of conference attendees toward diversity conference presenters based on race, gender, and disability over eight years …


Foreword To Case Studies: Qualitative Research, Judith Puncochar Jan 2014

Foreword To Case Studies: Qualitative Research, Judith Puncochar

Book Sections/Chapters

You are lucky to have found your way to this book. First, you must be an educated person and curious to learn more. Second, your mentor and guide in qualitative research is the wise and honorable scholar, Professor A. Chaedar Alwasilah. For 30 years, Prof. Alwasilah has met with students in his Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia office, on his front porch, and in coffee shops and guided students patiently and accurately through the prospectus phase of a qualitative thesis or dissertation and on to a successful, celebratory defense. Every page of Pokoknya Studi Kasus: Pendekatan Kualitatf offers an opportunity to …