{"id":6457,"date":"2015-04-01T16:02:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T19:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alacip.org\/?p=6457"},"modified":"2015-04-01T16:02:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T19:02:58","slug":"call-for-chapter-contributors-experimental-methods-in-survey-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alacip.org\/?p=6457","title":{"rendered":"Call for Chapter Contributors: Experimental Methods in Survey Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Call for Chapter Contributors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Working Title of Book<\/em><\/strong>:<\/strong> Experimental Methods in Survey Research: Techniques that Combine Random Sampling with Random Assignment<\/em><\/p>\n

Publisher<\/em><\/strong>:<\/strong> John Wiley & Sons (Hoboken NJ), in their Survey Methodology series; anticipated publication in 2017<\/p>\n

Editors<\/em><\/strong>:<\/strong> Paul J. Lavrakas, Edith de Leeuw, Allyson Holbrook, Courtney Kennedy, Michael W. Traugott, and Brady T. West<\/p>\n

Background and Purpose of the Book<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The purpose of this book is to summarize the current state of knowledge about the uses of experimentation in survey research that uses random probability sampling.\u00a0 It will bring together in one volume the best empirical-based research on how random assignment is combined with random sampling to provide research studies that have both strong Internal Validity to support causal attributions and strong External Validity to support generalizations beyond the sample with a known degree of confidence.<\/p>\n

There has been a very long tradition of conducting survey-based experiments for methodological purposes. For example, more than 80 years ago, Shuttleworth (1931) reported an experiment using incentives to raise response rates.\u00a0 Similarly, market researchers have used experiments in their surveys to test product concepts and advertising for many decades.\u00a0 More recently social scientists in political science, sociology, psychology, communications studies, economics, and other disciplines have begun using randomized vignettes to test various theoretical concepts on large representative samples of the general public (cf. Mutz, 2011) as opposed to limiting their study to unrepresentative convenience samples.\u00a0 And, with the growth of probability-based Internet panels which provide researchers considerable flexibility in delivering experimental stimuli in multiple modes, the use of powerful experiments embedded into representative surveys will continue to grow.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Each chapter in the new book is expected to contain a critical review of literature on the topic the chapter is focusing upon. This review of past literature is expected to be written using a \u201ctotal error\u201d perspective to summarize and evaluate what is known about this topic that likely is reliable and valid.\u00a0 The chapter also will report research findings from the author(s) about the topic at hand, as well as identifying important knowledge gaps in the topic and suggestions for future research about how to help close these knowledge gaps.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Call for Chapters<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Given the above, we invite academic, public, non-profit, and commercial sector researchers to submit proposals for chapters in our edited volume.\u00a0 The primary purpose of the book is to provide empirical evidence evaluating all sources of potential error in the manner in which randomly assigned experimental treatments are tested within randomly chosen samples.<\/p>\n

\u00a0A subset of possible chapter topics include:<\/p>\n