this comparative study wass causal, and the aim was studying employed women and its effect on their power in decision making in the family. the target population was included all working and non-working married women families in bookan in 1390. the sample, two groups of 70, married working women and non-working married women were selected. the first group consisted of married working women. bec...

Linda Shields PhD, FRCNA, Professor of Nursing, University of Limerick, Ireland This is one of a series of short papers on aspects of research by Alison Twycross and Linda Shields You’ve found a piece of research that you think may be relevant to your practice but it is full of statistics and you can make neither head nor tail of them. Why do researchers bother doing statistical tests? What on ...

1 Robert W Brown, RMIT University, Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, PO Box 2476V, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia. [email protected] Abstract Examinations using multi-choice questions can be automatically graded in a fraction of the time and cost of manually grading descriptive questions. There is much controversy concerning the efficacy of multi-choice questions in determining s...

This DIB article includes the course artefacts, instruments, survey data, and descriptive statistics, along with in-depth correlational analysis for the first iteration of a design-based research study on designing curriculum for developing online professional identity and social media practices for a multi-major advanced professional writing course. Raw data was entered into SPSS software. For...