John Tarnai

Publications

 

Tarnai, J. & Moore, D. (In Press) “Interviewer Productivity” In: P. J. Lavrakas (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Moore, D. & Tarnai, J. (In Press) “Interviewer Training” In: P. J. Lavrakas (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Tarnai, J. (2007), “Monitoring CATI Interviewers,” 2007 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Survey Methods Research Section [CD-ROM], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
Paxson. M. C. & Tarnai, (In Press) J. A Decade of Results using the ETS Major Field Test in Business. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education.
Tarnai, J. & Paxson, M. C. (2005), “Interviewer Judgments about the Quality of Telephone Interviews,” 2005 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Survey Methods Research Section [CD-ROM], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
Tarnai, J. & Paxson, M. C. (2004) “Survey Mode Preferences of Business Respondents,” 2004 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Survey Methods Research Section [CD-ROM], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
Paxson, M. C. & Tarnai, J. (2004) “An Experiment to Identify Survey Mode Response Effects by Controlling Nonresponse Errors,”  2004 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Survey Methods Research Section [CD-ROM], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
Tarnai, J. & Moore, D. (2004) “Methods for Testing and Evaluating Computer-Assisted Questionnaires” In: S. Presser, J. M. Rothgeb, M. Couper, J. T. Lessler, E. Martin, J. Martin, & E. Singer (Eds.) Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires. New York: Wiley-Interscience.
Lohr, V. I., Pearson-Mims, C. H., Tarnai, J., & Dillman, D. A. (2004) "How Urban Residents Rate and Rank the Benefits and Problems Associated with Trees in Cities." Journal of Arboriculture 30 (1) 28-36.
Paxson. M. C. & Tarnai, (2003) J. Comments on Ross and Sanford on Program Improvement. Assessment and Accountability Forum. 13 (1).
Tarnai, J. & Moore, D. (2003) "Testing CAI Questionnaires" In Survey Research Newsletter, Vol 34, No. 1. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois.
Moore, D. & Tarnai, J.  (2002) “Evaluating Nonresponse in Mail Surveys” In Groves, R. M., Dillman, D. A., Eltinge, J. L., & Little, R. J. A. (Eds.) Survey Nonresponse. New York: Wiley-Interscience.
Losh, S. C., Betten, N., Tarnai, J., Tucker, W. P., & Vargas, B. (In 2001) When Faculty Evaluate their Administrators in Higher Education? Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Educational Research, 2000.
Gillmore, G., Hunter, S., Tarnai, J., Trimble, J., Roberts, C. & Gibson, F. (1999) Assessment in Washington State Universities? In: Assessment and Accountability Forum 10, Summer, pp 8-10,18.?o:p>
Tarnai, J. (1998) Review of S. L. Chow, Statistical Significance: Rationale, Validity, and Utility? (Sage, 1996). Journal of Official Statistics, Vol 14, No. 3.
Tarnai, J., Kennedy, J., & Scudder, D. (1998) Organizational Effects of CATI in Small to Medium Survey Centers In: M. Couper, R. Baker, J. Bethlehem, C. Clark, J. Martin, W. Nicholls, & J. OReilly. (Eds.) Computer Assisted Survey Information Collection. New York: Wiley.
Legg, R. F., Sclar, D. A., Nemec, N. L., Tarnai, J., & Mackowiak, J. I. (1997) Cost benefit of sumatriptan to an employer. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Legg, R. F., Sclar, D. A., Nemec, N. L., Tarnai, J., & Mackowiak, J. I. (1997) Cost-effectiveness of Sumatriptan in a managed care population. The American Journal of Managed Care, Vol 3, Pp 117-122.
Dillman, D. A., Sangster, R. L., Tarnai, J., & Rockwood, T. H. (1996) Understanding differences in people answers to telephone and mail surveys. In: M. T. Braverman & J. K. Slater (Eds.) Advances in Survey Research. New Directions for Evaluation, Number 70, Summer. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
McKay, R. B., Breslow, M. J., Sangster, R. L., Gabbard, S. M., Reynolds, R. W., Nakamoto, J. M., & Tarnai, J. (1996) Translating survey questionnaires: lessons learned. In: M. T. Braverman & J. K. Slater (Eds.) Advances in Survey Research. New Directions for Evaluation, Number 70, Summer. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Tarnai, J., Pavlov, R., Frigon, C. (1995) Telephone Interviews of Adolescents: Problems and Prospects in a Substance Abuse Prevalence Survey. Proceedings. American Statistical Association. Alexandria, Virginia.
Paxson, M. C., Dillman, D. A., & Tarnai, J. (1994) Improving response to business mail surveys. In: B. G. Cox, D. A. Binder, B. N. Chinnappa,A. Christianson, M. J. Colledge, & P. S. Kott (Eds.) Survey Methods for Businesses, Farms, and Institutions. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Fiset, L., Milgrom, P., & Tarnai, J. (1994) Dentists' response to financial incentives in a mail survey of malpractice liability experience. Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 54 (2), Pp. 68-72.
Tarnai, J. and Dillman, D. (1992) Questionnaire context as a source of response differences in mail vs telephone surveys. In: N. Schwarz, H. J. Hippler, S. Sudman (Eds.) Order Effects in Social and Psychological Research. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Tarnai, J. (1991) Implementing effective assessment surveys. Proceedings. Second Annual Montclair Assessment Conference, Fairfield, N.J., March 14-16, 1991.
Dillman, D. and Tarnai, J. (1991) Mode effects of cognitively designed recall questions: A comparison of answers to telephone and mail surveys. In: Biemer, P. et al. (Eds.) Measurement Errors in Surveys. New York: Wiley.
Dillman, D. and Tarnai, J. (1988) Administrative issues in mixed mode surveys. In: R. M. Groves, P. Biemer, L. Lyberg, J. Massey, W. L. Nicholls, J. Waksberg (Eds.) Telephone Survey Methodology. New York: Wiley.
Howard, E. G. and Tarnai, J. (1986) Needs assessment for continuing engineering education in a high technology region. Proceedings, World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education, Lake Buena Vista, FL, May 7-9, 1986.
Tarnai, J. (1984) Answers to questions: Extroverted vs introverted alcoholics. Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, 18, No. 7, 12-13.
Tarnai, J. and Young, F. A. (1983) The alcoholic's personality: Extrovert or introvert? Psychological Reports, 53, 123-127.
Kimlicka, T. M., Cross, H. J. and Tarnai, J. (1983) A comparison of androgynous, feminine, masculine, and undifferentiated women on self esteem, body satisfaction, and sexual satisfaction. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 7, (3), 291-294.
Tarnai, J., Magnusson-Fagan, N. J., Eichberger, M., Hopkins, R. H. and Mauss, A. L. (1981) On re-tooling the teachers: An evaluation of teacher training in alcohol education. Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 27 (Fall), 34-46.
Mauss, A. L., Hopkins, R. H., Tarnai, J. and Kearney, K. A. (1980) Perils and pot shots in preventive research: A response to Staulcup et al. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 41, 959-962.
Rankin, W. L., Tarnai, J., Fagan, N. J., Mauss, A. L. and Hopkins, R. H. (1978) An evaluation of workshops designed to prepare teachers in alcohol education. Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 23, 1-13.

 

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