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CASL People:

Barbara Forsyth
Area Director, Performance and Analysis

Area: Performance & Analysis

Education:
  • B.A., College of Wooster, 1975
  • M.A., University of South Carolina, 1981
  • Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1984

Research Interests:
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychological Measurement
  • Research Design and Analysis
  • Survey Design and Metholody

CASL Research Projects:

Detecting Deception Across Cultures

Selected Publications:

Cross Cultural Survey Development: Methods for Pretesting Questionnaire Translations

Using Cognitive Interviews to Test Spanish-Language Versions of Dietary Questions

Methods for Translating an English-Language Survey Questionnaire on Tobacco Use into Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Vietnamese

Improving questionnaire translations and translation processes

Real-World Tasks Study of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL)

Does question pretesting make a difference? An empirical test using a field survey experiment

A coding system for appraising questionnaires

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