I could foresee a particular problem with this methodology producing a bias since few academics will
want to be seen as politically incorrect even with anonymisation. I would think that in order to
overcome that a number of check questions need to be included to ensure consistency in ansering or
to trip the unwary up. Of course that instantly raises another set of questions about ethics and
transparency.
I guess the best and most ethical methodology in the circumstances would be to adopt the journalists
approach and go covert, as indeed some researching employers attitudes to disabled jobseekers have
done.
It is the difference here between strict academic research and social action research which can
operate on different paradigms
Larry
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> Dear all,
>
> I'm currently working on a questionnaire to look at attitudes
> of staff in a UK University to disabled students. While some
> of the questions will be around knowledge, awareness of
> accessibility requirements and personal knowledge/experience
> of disability issues, I am also looking for attitudinal
> questions. Education questions would be useful, but they
> don't have to be specifically about teaching and learning.
>
> I am hoping to adapt questions from the British Social
> Attitudes survey from
> 2005 (which had a special section on attitudes to disabled
> people). Is there any other source material I should be
> looking at, or other surveys? Material like the BSA survey
> is particularly useful as there are figures available to
> which responses from my participants could be compared.
>
> Has anyone else previously undertaken similar surveys and
> therefore have attitudinal questions which they would be
> happy to see re-used? I'd be happy to incorporate either
> individual questions, or to consider re-using an attitudinal
> tool someone may have developed which would benefit from an
> additional trial.
>
> Any questions used would of course be credited to the
> originator, and their work referenced accordingly, in any
> publications or conference materials and the website for the project.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lizzie Walker
> Research Assistant (Enhancing Transitions for Disabled
> Students), University of Huddersfield - website at:
> http://www.hud.ac.uk/tqef/1d.html [log in to unmask]
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