In June
1997, the National Center for Health Statistics and the National Science
Foundation, with support of several Federal statistical agencies,
sponsored the Second Advanced Research Seminar on the Cognitive Aspects of
Survey Methodology (CASM II Seminar). The CASM II Seminar was attended by
about 50 outstanding researchers and survey methodologists representing a
broad range of scientific disciplines. The Seminar assessed the
contributions of the CASM movement since its inception at the CASM I
Seminar in June 1984 and sketched a roadmap for fostering
interdisciplinary survey methods research into the twenty-first century.
This is an announcement of the availability of two CASM II Seminar
publications.
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New Agenda for Interdisciplinary Survey Research Methods: Proceedings of
the CASM II Seminar, edited by Monroe Sirken, Thomas Jabine, Gordon
Willis, Elizabeth Martin, and Clyde Tucker was published March 1999 by the
National Center of Health Statistics (NCHS). It is accessible in its
entirety at the NCHS Web site (see PDF Hot Link below). This publication
summarizes the history of the CASM movement and reviews current needs and
proposes future directions for interdisciplinary survey methods research.
Its highlights include eight working group reports outlining research
agendas that address critically important survey issues, abstracts of
articles that were presented at 4 plenary sessions as well as rapporteur
comments, and an edited transcript of oral history interviews with 17
pioneers of the CASM movement.
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New Agenda for Interdisciplinary Survey Research Methods: Proceedings of
the CASM II Seminar. 136 pp.
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Cognition
and Survey Research, edited by Monroe Sirken, Douglas Herrmann, Susan
Schechter, Norbert Schwartz, Judith Tanur, and Roger Tourangeau was
published in April 1999 by John Wiley and Sons (ISBN 0-471-24138-5) in its
Probability and Statistics Series, Survey Methodology Section. This
publication contains the 22 articles that were commissioned for the CASM
II Seminar. Leading survey researchers, cognitive psychologists, and other
scientists from around the globe critically review the impact of CASM
research since 1984 and discuss the important roles of computer science,
statistics, and other scientific disciplines in a rapidly evolving field
of interdisciplinary survey methods research.