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Mario Callegaro
Dr. Lavrakas has written two editions of Telephone Survey Methods: Sampling, Selection and Supervision (Sage; 1987, 1993) and several chapters on telephone survey methods (e.g., Handbook of Survey Research; Elsevier, 2010). He was editor of the 2007 Public Opinion Quarterly issue on cell phone surveying and co-editor of Advances in Telephone Survey Methodology (Wiley, 2008). He also is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods (Sage, 2008). He organized and chaired the 2003 and 2005 Cell Phone Sampling summits, and the 2007-2008 and 2009-2010 AAPOR task forces on Cell Phone Surveying. He also has edited three books on media election polling and co-authored four editions of The Voter’s Guide to Election Polls (with M. Traugott). He has served on the election night decision teams of VNS (1996-2002), ABC (2008), and The AP (2010). An AAPOR member since the 1980s, he was Conference Operations chair (1995-1997), 1999 Conference Program chair, and Counselor at Large (2008-2010). He currently is serving as AAPOR’s Vice President/President-Elect. In addition, Paul is a member of AStatA, MAPOR, NYAAPOR, SAPOR, PAPOR, and WAPOR. He was chosen as a MAPOR Fellow (1997) and received NYAAPOR’s Award for Outstanding Achievement (2007).
Dr. Krosnick is also a world-recognized expert on the psychology of attitudes, especially in the area of politics. He is co-principal investigator of the American National Election Study, the nation's preeminent academic research project exploring voter decision-making and political campaign effects. For 30 years, Dr. Krosnick has studied how the American public's political attitudes are formed, change, and shape thinking and action. His publications explore the causes of people decisions about whether to vote, for whom to vote, whether to approve of the President’s performance, whether to take action to influence government policy-making on a specific issue, and much more.
Dr. Krosnick's scholarship has been recognized with the Phillip Brickman Memorial Prize, the Pi Sigma Alpha Award, the Erik Erikson Early Career Award for Excellence and Creativity, a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and membership as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
As an expert witness in court, he has testified evaluating the quality of surveys presented as evidence by opposing counsel and has conducted original survey research to inform courts in cases involving unreimbursed expenses, uncompensated overtime work, exempt/non-exempt misclassification, patent/trademark violation, health effects of accidents, consequences of being misinformed about the results of standardized academic tests, economic valuation of environmental damage, change of venue motions, and other topics.
At Stanford, Dr. Krosnick directs the Political Psychology Research Group (PPRG). PPRG is a cross-disciplinary team of scholars who conduct empirical studies of the psychology of political behavior and studies seeking to optimize research methodology for studying political psychology. The group's studies employ a wide range of research methods, including surveys, experiments, and content analysis, and the group often conducts collaborative research studies with leading news media organizations, including ABC News, The Associated Press, the Washington Post, and Time Magazine. Support for the group's work has come from U.S. Government agencies (e.g., the National Science Foundation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics), private foundations (e.g., the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), and Institutes at Stanford (e.g., the Woods Institute for the Environment). Dr. Krosnick also directs the Summer Institute in Political Psychology, an annual event that brings 60 students and professions from around the world to Stanford for intensive training in political psychology theory and methods.
Paul J. Lavrakas
Paul J. Lavrakas, Ph.D., a research psychologist, is a consultant for several private sector and not-for-profit organizations, and also does select volunteer service projects. He also is a visiting scholar, teaching research method courses, at Northern Arizona U.
He was a Nielsen vice president and their chief methodologist (2000-2007); Professor of Journalism/Communications (Northwestern, 1978-1996; Ohio State, 1996-2000); and founding faculty director of the NU Survey Lab (1982-1996) and the OSU Center for Survey Research (1996-2000). Born in Cambridge MA, educated in the public schools of Birmingham MI, Paul earned a BA from Michigan State U. (Psychology/ Political Science/History). He taught fifth grade on Chicago’s Southside (1968-1972), then earned an MA in experimental social psychology (1975) and a PhD in applied social psychology (1977) from Loyola U. He helped establish the Westinghouse Evaluation Institute and conducted two decades of federally funded anti-crime evaluation projects (1974-1993).
A leading international authority on questionnaire design and survey research methods, Professor Krosnick has taught courses for professionals on survey methods for 25 years around the world and has served as a methodology consultant to government agencies, commercial firms, and academic scholars. His books include “Introduction to Survey Research, Polling, and Data Analysis” and "The Handbook of Questionnaire Design" (forthcoming, Oxford University Press), which reviews 100 years of research on how different ways of asking questions can yield different answers from survey respondents and on how to design questions to measure most accurately. His recent research has focused on how other aspects of survey methodology (e.g., collecting data by interviewing face-to-face vs. by telephone or on paper questionnaires) can be optimized to maximize accuracy.
Anja has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters and made over 100 presentations at national and international academic conventions. In 2008, she chaired the program of the General Online Research Conference. She is associate editor of Social Science Computer Review and member of the editorial team of Social Psychological & Personality Science as well as International Journal of Internet Science.
Jon A. Krosnick
Jon A. Krosnick is Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of communication, political science, and psychology at Stanford University.
Anja has taught graduate and post-graduate courses on research methods and Web-based data collection. Moreover, she has regularly been an instructor in the Advanced Training Institute "Performing Web-Based Research" of the American Psychological Association. In 2000, she built and has since maintained Germany's first university-based online panel with more than 10,000 panelists (www.wisopanel.uni-erlangen.de). Anja programmed a number of open-source tools for Web-based data collection and released them into the public domain (www.goeritz.net/brmic andwww.goeritz.net/panelware).
He is author of other books published by Wiley: "Applied Survey Methods" and "Handbook of Nonresponse in Household Surveys".
Anja S. Göritz
Anja Göritz (www.goeritz.net) is a Full professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Freiburg in Germany. Anja holds a graduate degree in Psychology from the University of Leipzig and a Ph.D. in Organizational and Social Psychology from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Her research focuses on Web-based data collection, market psychology and Human-Computer Interaction. She also consults with international clients regarding design, programming and implementation of Web surveys.
Dr. Bethlehem's current research interests include Web surveys, computer-assisted survey information collection, graphical techniques in statistics, and user-friendly software for statistical
analysis.
He studied mathematical statistics at the University of Amsterdam. His PhD
was about nonresponse in surveys. He worked for over 30 years at Statistics Netherlands. His research topics are disclosure control, nonresponse, weighting adjustment, and web surveys. In the 1980's and 1990's he has also been in charge of the development of Blaise, a a software system for computer-assisted survey data collection. He has participated in a number of European research projects financed by the European Union.
Mario Callegaro is Senior Survey Research Scientist in the Quantitative Marketing team at Google. He works on web survey design and focuses on measuring customer satisfaction. He also consults with numerous internal teams regarding survey design, sampling, questionnaire design and online survey programming and implementation. Mario is about to deliver the final draft of a book: Web Survey Methodology [Sage publisher] with co-editors Katja Lozar Manfreda and Vasja Vehovar.
Mario holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Trento, Italy, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Survey Research and Methodology from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Prior to joining Google, Mario was working as survey research scientist for Knowledge Networks.
Mario has published over 30 peer reviewed papers and book chapters and made over 100 conference presentations nationally and internationally in the areas of web surveys, telephone and cell phone surveys; question wording, polling and exit polls; event history calendar; longitudinal surveys, and survey quality. He is associate editor of Survey Research Methods, member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Market Research, and reviewer for other survey research oriented journals.
Reg Baker
Reg Baker is Chief Operating Office of Market Strategies International, a full-service research company specializing in healthcare, energy, financial services, telecommunications, and information technology. Prior to joining Market Strategies, he was Vice President for Research Operations at NORC where he oversaw the national field staff, the company’s CATI centers, and its technology infrastructure. He also has consulted with the Census Bureau on use of new data collection technologies, worked with a wide variety of clients in the public and the private sectors, and continues to do substantial research with academic survey methodologists on Web survey methods. He was the Chair of the AAPOR Online Panels Task Force, is a member of the international project team charged with developing and maintaining ESOMAR’s “26 Questions to Help Buyers of Online Samples” and has twice chaired that organizations Panels Conference.
Reg Baker is curator of a blog called the Survey Geek
Jelke Bethlehem
Jelke Bethlehem, PhD, is Senior Advisor in the Division of Methodology and Quality at Statistics Netherlands. He is also professor of Statistical Information Processing at the University of Amsterdam.
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