This study examines information systems (IS) project developers and analysts’ usage and familiarity with IS methodologies, development tools, and languages. It is research-in-progress that outlines the background for the study, presents the basis for inclusion of various methodologies, tools, and languages in the study, and describes the way in which data will be collected. The latter includes ...

One of the most important coordination techniques for software development is to build the effective knowledge network in a software project. The knowledge network, in this paper, refers to interfunctional relationships for obtaining customer needs. We investigated the knowledge networks employing a survey instrument to collect data from a variety of product processes in a Japanese SI (Systems ...

This data article describes a dataset of 1,668 cases representing self-reported assessments of housing inadequacy and perceived housing stress. The dataset also contains person-level and household-level demographic data to contextualize the above measures. A second supplemental file contains the text of the survey instrument. Discussion of theoretical background and measures development as well...

Academic self-efficacy affects the success of students in the sciences. Our goals were to develop an instrument to assess the self-efficacy and attitudes toward science of students in an undergraduate physiology course. We hypothesized 1) that our instrument would demonstrate that students taking this course would exhibit greater self-efficacy and more positive attitudes toward science than stu...

A survey module used to monitor the prevalence of household food insecurity and hunger in the United States was developed by a broadly based collaborative project with leadership from the USDA and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). It has been administered annually since 1995 as a supplement to the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS) and is part of the National Health...