Response Rates and Responsiveness for Surveys, Standards, and the Journal

From: American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education | Date: March 1, 2008| Author: Fincham, Jack E | Copyright information

The Journal has regularly published the results of survey research. As an academy we seem to be very interested in learning what our faculty members and students think, how they perform, and what is going on at other schools and colleges of pharmacy. A survey is often the best approach to acquiring that knowledge. However, the Editors believe that survey research published in the Journal has varied in quality and that standards for survey research can be used to improve the quality of researc...

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