Upcoming Events

• Most of our events take place in the McKusick Conference Room on the 13th floor at 50 Beale Street, in downtown San Francisco, unless otherwise noted. [Directions to CAPS]
• RSVP to Rochelle Blanco if you would like to attend. You will need to check in at the security desk upon arrival if you are coming from outside of 50 Beale St. Mention “Town Hall” at the security desk to expedite entry approval.

The Visiting Professor Program at CAPS is hosting a special guest, Johnny Blair, on July 1-2, 2013. Johnny Blair is an independent consultant in survey methodology, primarily in sampling, cognitive interviewing and survey and questionnaire design. He collaborated with CAPS investigators Diane Binson, Bill Woods, and Lance Pollack for a recent study about “Conversational Interviewing” an innovative method of personal interviewing designed to improve comprehension. While at CAPS, he will deliver a seminar about cognitive interviewing, and offer consulting appointments on survey topics of interest. We are making both of these opportunities available to the CAPS community.

SEMINAR

“Cognitive Interview Pretesting”

A seminar for the Visiting Professors

open to the CAPS community

DATE: Monday, July 1

TIME: 10 am – 12:30 pm

LOCATION: McKusick Conference roomCAPS, 50 Beale St, 13th Floor

 

CONSULTING

Please contact Dale Danley, Visiting Professors program coordinator, at dale.danley@ucsf.edu

to schedule a half-hour or one-hour consultation during the times listed below.

DATE: Monday, July 1

TIME: 2 pm – 5 pm

Room 13052

 

Johnny Blair is an independent consultant in survey methodology. He was a Principal Scientist at Abt Associates and a manager of survey operations at the University of Maryland Survey Research Center and the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) Survey Research Laboratory. Over a 40-year career in survey research, he has designed and implemented surveys for health (including HIV high-risk populations), education (including large-scale student assessments), environment (including contingent valuation), and criminal victimization (including proxy reporting) surveys. He has conducted methodological research on sampling rare populations, measurement error in proxy reporting, cognitive and usability testing of computer-based student writing assessments, and data quality in converted refusal interviews. He has been involved in a decade-long program of research on cognitive interview pretesting, most recently on the theory of pretest sample size and the validation of pretest problem identification. (from Blair, J., Czaja, R. F., Blair, E. A. Designing Surveys: A Guide to Decisions and Procedures. Third edition. Los Angeles: Sage; 2014.)

The Visiting Professor Program at CAPS is hosting a special guest, Johnny Blair, on July 1-2, 2013. Johnny Blair is an independent consultant in survey methodology, primarily in sampling, cognitive interviewing and survey and questionnaire design. He collaborated with CAPS investigators Diane Binson, Bill Woods, and Lance Pollack for a recent study about “Conversational Interviewing” an innovative method of personal interviewing designed to improve comprehension. While at CAPS, he will deliver a seminar about cognitive interviewing, and offer consulting appointments on survey topics of interest. We are making both of these opportunities available to the CAPS community.

 

CONSULTING

Please contact Dale Danley, Visiting Professors program coordinator, at dale.danley@ucsf.edu

to schedule a half-hour or one-hour consultation during the times listed below.

DATE: Tuesday, July 2

TIME: 10 am – 4 pm

Room 13052

 

Johnny Blair is an independent consultant in survey methodology. He was a Principal Scientist at Abt Associates and a manager of survey operations at the University of Maryland Survey Research Center and the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) Survey Research Laboratory. Over a 40-year career in survey research, he has designed and implemented surveys for health (including HIV high-risk populations), education (including large-scale student assessments), environment (including contingent valuation), and criminal victimization (including proxy reporting) surveys. He has conducted methodological research on sampling rare populations, measurement error in proxy reporting, cognitive and usability testing of computer-based student writing assessments, and data quality in converted refusal interviews. He has been involved in a decade-long program of research on cognitive interview pretesting, most recently on the theory of pretest sample size and the validation of pretest problem identification. (from Blair, J., Czaja, R. F., Blair, E. A. Designing Surveys: A Guide to Decisions and Procedures. Third edition. Los Angeles: Sage; 2014.)