Roger Tourangeau
Research Professor, ISR; Director and Research Professor, JPSM, University of Maryland
Tourangeau received a PhD in psychology from Yale University. His current research interests involve the cognitive bases for answers to survey questions; applied sampling; the impact of the mode of data collection on the accuracy of the information collected; web surveys; and methods for improving survey questionnaires. He currently has grant support from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health for a research program on visual and interactive features of Web surveys.
Selected Publications:
Groves, R.M., Fowler F.J., Couper, M.P., Lepkowski, J.M., Sinter, E., and Tourangeau, R. (2004). Survey Methodology. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Tourangeau, R. (2004). "Design considerations for questionnaire development." In S. Presser, J. Rothgeb, M. Couper, J. Lessler, E. Martin, J. Martin, and E. Singer (Eds.), Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires (pp. 209-224). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Tourangeau, R. (2004). "Survey Research and Societal Change." Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 775-801.
Couper, M.P., Tourangeau, R., Conrad, F., and Crawford, S. (2004). "What they see is what we get: Response options for Web surveys." Social Science Computing Review, 22, 111-127.
Tourangeau, R., Singer, E., and Presser, S. (2003). "Context effects in attitude surveys: Effects on remote items and impact on predictive validity." Sociological Methods and Research, 31, 486-513.