[Air-l] FW: Short list of new PhD's for AoIR Newsletter

[Kathleen O'Riordan]

Thanks Charlie and Denise

Please send these direct to Karine on the newsletter team - we 
unfortunately do not have the resources at the moment to make sure we are 
watching the list the whole time, or to search the archives - so please 
please send this information to us direct if possible.

We do want to be able to collect this content though so please send you 
name and abstract to the newsletter team

re Karine Barzilai-Nahon <karineb at u.washington.edu>

apologies for the confusion as to addresses!

All the best
Kate

--On 31 May 2007 17:25 -0700 "Charles Balch Ph.D." <charlie at balch.org> 
wrote:

> Dr. Rall is correct. Please add Dr. Balch ("Charlie") to the list of
> recent PhDs who monitor this list. I need to update my VITA at
> http://charlie.balch.org/card but the following is probably more than most
> list members want to know.
>
> Current VITA:
> Professor of Computer Information Systems
> Arizona Western College
> Yuma, AZ
> charlie at balch.org
>
> Dissertation Abstract:
> Balch, Charles V.
> B.S., University of California at Davis, 1984
> M.Ed., University of the Virgin Islands, 1991
> MBA, University of the Virgin Islands, 1996
> Doctor of Philosophy, LSU, 2007
> Major: Educational Theory, Policy, and Practice
> Balch Internet Research and Analysis Tool Development Case Study
> Dissertation directed by Professor Jerry Willis
> Pages in Dissertation, 217. Words in Abstract, 183.
> Abstract
> The Internet has become increasing popular as a vehicle to deliver
> surveys. An essential objective of research is to collect accurate data
> and there has been little work to insure that Internet survey systems are
> employing best practices as defined by academic and professional research
> to collect data. My dissertation reviews the current literature relating
> to best practices in Internet survey design and best practices in
> software design and development. I then document the development and
> deployment of an Open Source and publicly licensed Internet survey system
> that allows researchers to easily create, deploy, and analyze the results
> of Internet surveys. The resultant Internet survey design product, the
> Balch Internet Research and Analysis Tool (http://birat.net) is a
> full-featured Internet survey system which addresses best Internet
> research practices as defined by academic and professional research. The
> system was designed and coded by the author and is considered by him to
> be both innovative and unique to the field. The dissertation then reviews
> the system features, describes how the system was deployed, and discusses
> the strategies used to increase use and adoption of the system.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Denise N. Rall
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 4:44 PM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Cc: air-newsletter at aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-l] Short list of new PhD's for AoIR Newsletter
>
> Dear AIR-ers -
>
> I occurred to me that some of us have recently
> *finished* our PhD's (whew) and we should announce these in the
> newsletter. I think Charlie Balch is another one of the tribe.
>
> Please email the Graduate Student coordinator, Ted Coopman (sorry Ted) but
> you must be the right person!!!
>
> coopman at u.washington.edu
>
> and he will get these into the June newsletter.
>
> Rall, D. N. (2007). Locating four pathways to internet scholarship.  Ph.D.
> thesis. School of Environmental Science and Management. Southern Cross
> University.
> Lismore, NSW. Australia.
> 	
>
>
>
>
>
> Denise N. Rall, PhD
> Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA
> Tues: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 Mobile 0438 233 344
> http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/
> Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK
> http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html
>
>
>
>
Dr Kate O'Riordan
Department of Media and Film
EDB
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton
UK
BN1 9RG

Tel: 00 44 (0) 1273 876730

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