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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Bauman, Sheri – Journal of School Counseling, 2007
This article examines the effectiveness of incentives in improving survey response rates of school counselors and compares the findings with those of previously researched populations. A $1 cash incentive increased response rates for a one-wave mailing of a questionnaire, while a raffle opportunity did not. The number and length of optional…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Response Rates (Questionnaires), Incentives, Program Effectiveness
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Bauman, Sheri; Steiner, Robert; Lopez, Francesca – Journal of School Counseling, 2007
A three-page questionnaire was modified to a one-page format. Questionnaires were administered in classroom groups to 300 middle school students. Classrooms were randomly divided into two groups, with one group receiving the original three-page format and the other receiving a single-page version of the same questionnaire. The visual layout of the…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Differences, Layout (Publications), Middle School Students