USING COGNITIVE RESEARCH TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF POSTSECONDARY

workload, academic and job background, retirement plans, income, job satisfaction, etc. The purpose of the cognitive research we undertook was to gain a better understanding of the range of problems and limitations institutions face when responding to the National Study Of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF) requests and how these relate to errors in the faculty 1 lists and counts provided by institutions in previous rounds of the survey. NSOPF Background The NSOPF is conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) every five years. This survey consists of two components: the institution component and the faculty component. The institution component is made up of two parts