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Retrospective measurement of students' extracurricular activities with a selfadministered calendar instrument
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Abstract "With the expansion of all-day schooling in Germany, students' extracurricular activities are being brought into greater focus in educational and social sciences. However, the diverse range of activities and individual biographies makes it difficult to gather data on the variety and periods of extra... view more
"With the expansion of all-day schooling in Germany, students' extracurricular activities are being brought into greater focus in educational and social sciences. However, the diverse range of activities and individual biographies makes it difficult to gather data on the variety and periods of extracurricular activities in classroom-based surveys. This paper introduces a tailored calendar instrument that was applied by the Study on the Development of All-Day Schools (StEG) to retrospectively survey the activities of senior students since the fifth grade. Unlike other calendar applications, the calendar was not filled in by trained staff but self-administered by the students in a group setting. We discuss methodological issues regarding this procedure by examining the current state of research and by sharing experiences of tests of the instrument prior to the survey. By further analysing the survey data, we find no indication that the calendar task induces higher non-response as a result of overburdening the respondents. Calendar elements with an open-ended format resulted in heterogeneous reports, which were nonetheless mostly suitable for further analysis. According to our findings, the number of reported activities does not vary for students with longer intervals of retrospection. From our results, we conclude that a calendar instrument can be successfully applied in classroom-based surveys but should be implemented with a step-by-step procedure under a supervisor’s guidance." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
all-day school; Federal Republic of Germany; extracurricular learning; informal learning; educational offerings; pupil; female pupil; time budgeting; time; planning; recreational activity; data capture; data quality; questionnaire
Classification
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Leisure Research
Free Keywords
calendar; retrospective; extracurricular activities
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 73-96
Journal
Methods, data, analyses : a journal for quantitative methods and survey methodology (mda), 10 (2016) 1
ISSN
2190-4936
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution