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Title: When You Say Nothing at All: The Surprising Predictive Power of Student Effort on Surveys
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Hitt, Collin |
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When You Say Nothing at All: The Surprising Predictive Power of Student Effort on Surveys Presented: Albuquerque NM, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 2014 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Nonresponse; Personality/Big Five Factor Model or Traits Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The completion of a survey is a task. We calculate student effort on surveys within several prominent longitudinal datasets frequently used in social science research, such as the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1997 and National Educational Longitudinal Survey 1988. Specifically, we calculate the frequency with which respondents provide incomplete, invalid or inconsistent answers. We then test whether survey-effort in adolescence is predictive of later life outcomes. Remarkably, the information captured in our measures of survey effort is a consistent predictor of educational attainment. We also examine outcomes such as income, crime, health and marriage. The pattern of relationships between survey effort and later outcomes is consistent with what one would expect of conscientiousness. Thus we suggest survey effort as a proxy measure of student skills, for use in program evaluations and public policy research. |
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Hitt, Collin. "When You Say Nothing at All: The Surprising Predictive Power of Student Effort on Surveys." Presented: Albuquerque NM, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 2014. |