Asking the Age Question in Elderly Populations: A Reverse Record Check Study

Asking the age question in elderly populations: a reverse record check study.

In two large-scale surveys among elderly respondents we evaluated the accuracy of answers obtained to three differently formulated age questions. Respondents included 6,149 individuals aged 65-86 living in The Netherlands. Because criterion age data were available from different sources, it was possible to compare the respondent's reported age with his or her actual age. Refusal rates were low ...

A Conversation Analytic Study on the Teachers’ Management of Understanding-Check Question Sequences in EFL Classrooms

Teacher questions are claimed to be constitutive of classroom interaction because of their crucial role both in the construction of knowledge and the organization of classroom proceedings (Dalton Puffer, 2007). Most of previous research on teachers’ questions mainly focused on identifying and discovering different question types believed to be helpful in creating the opportunities for learners’...

Asking the Right Question: Specifying Your Study Question

The most important step in conducting a high-quality research study is to create a study question that will provide the guidance for the planning, analysis, and reporting of your study. The process of generating a novel, answerable study question seems like it should be simple at first blush. Perhaps your keen interest in a particular topic sparks an idea for a study that starts the creative pr...

A question worth asking?

Asking the Right Question

For instance, enthusiasts of object-oriented programming were initially keen to promote the value of hierarchical models. Only later did experimental evidence reveal that deep hierarchies are more error prone than shallow ones. In contrast, medical practice has changed dramatically during the last decade as a result of adopting an evidence-based paradigm. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, studie...