Quality Control in Telephone Survey Interviewer Monitoring

Interviewer Effects in an Environmental Valuation Telephone Survey

We investigate interviewer effects in a random digit dial telephone survey of recycling valuation and behavior. Lack of market experience with environmental goods may cause respondents to be more prone to interviewer effects during valuation surveys. Following previous research in both psychology and survey methodology, we test the direct effects of interviewer gender and race, as well as the i...

Telephone Interviewer Voice Characteristics and the Survey Participation Decision

Monitoring Speech Quality in Telephone Networks: An Overview

Monitoring speech quality in telephone networks is a two-step procedure. First, all data which are relevant for speech quality have to be measured during network operation. Then, models can be defined which calculate quality indices on the basis of the measurements. This talk will give an overview of monitoring approaches related to speech communication quality, which is one component of the qu...

Discharge Against Medical Advice in Teaching Hospitals: A Telephone Survey

Background: Discharge with personal consent is considered as one of the main problems in hospitalization condition since many patients leave the hospital prematurely against the doctor’s advice. Thus, the aim of this study was to identify the factors affecting the discharge with personal satisfaction in selected teaching hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Methods: The pr...

‏‎comprehension monitoring in l1&l2‎‏

هدف اصلی این تحقیق مقایسه و تمایز بین روشها و استراتژیهای خاص برای درک مطلب بهتر در زبان مادری و زبان دوم بوده است. در قدم اول میزان توانایی افراد در درک مطلب فارسی و انگلیسی اندازه گیری و سپس رده بندی شد. همچنین از دانش آموزان خواسته شد که در مورد روشها و استراتژیهایی که برای درک مطلب بهتر به کار برده بودند توضیح دهند. نتیجه این مرحله از تحقیق نشان داد که دانشجویان برای درک مطلب مطلوب در زبان ...