Experimental Assessment of Delphi Procedures with Group Value Judgments. [Report No.: R-612-ARPA

Autor/inn/en	Dalkey, Norman C.; Rourke, Daniel L.
Institution	Rand Corp., Santa Monica, CA.
Titel	Experimental Assessment of Delphi Procedures with Group Value Judgments. [Report No.: R-612-ARPA
Quelle	(1971), (58 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Cluster Analysis; Educational Research; Group Norms; Higher Education; Values + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Clusteranalyse; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Wertbegriff
Abstract	This report describes the results of an experiment assessing the appropriateness of Delphi procedures for formulating group value judgments. Two groups of subjects--upperclass and graduate students from UCLA--were asked to generate and rate value categories relating to higher education and the quality of life. The initial lists (300 and 250 items respectively) were aggregated by the experimental teams to 45 and 48 items respectively. The subjects then rated all possible pairs of these items with respect to their similarity. The average similarity ratings were analyzed by a clustering routine. Subjects from both groups made estimates of the relative contributions of each of the educational categories to each of the quality of life categories. The primary data analyses concerned the importance rating. Three aspects were examined: the quality of the distributions of the responses, the correlation between ratings by different groups and different rating techniques, and the amount of change and degree of convergence upon iteration with feedback. The experiment furnished support for the conclusion that Delphi procedures are appropriate for processing value material as well as factual material. The substantive data concerning higher education and individual life also indicated the possibility that current notions of the role of the university are somewhat loosely tied to the basic interests of the students. A 13-item bibliography is included. (Author/MJM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01