We opened for business this October with a pilot group of 10 students.
Nancy Cranston was "one of the program's guinea pigs," a member of the pilot group of MBA students that helped get the idea off the ground in 1997, at a time when the term "technology commercialization" was relatively new to MBA students.
This questionnaire was also initially found to have some translation problems, and the validation process was only conducted on a small pilot group of 43 students, so it is possible that the instrument used to assess mental illness and social network strength in this study may not be equally valid across all types of study respondent, introducing bias in responses.
The questionnaire was initially distributed to a pilot group of 5 medical and 5 nursing students to assess the structure and comprehensibility of the survey.
In the initiative's pilot year, a group of students from Cornell used iPads linked to the in-classroom technology to give a Dutch-language tour of a university exhibit on the history of the Netherlands to their classmates on the other two campuses.
In the pilot study, a group of students were asked to write down their thinking process after they finished a reading test, from which the students' difficulties in reading comprehension test were identified and mediations were worked out afterwards.
The questionnaire was piloted with a group of students similar to the intended respondents, and a few ambiguous statements were identified and re-written.
In order to maximise content validity the questionnaire was developed in consultation with the course tutors and was piloted with a group of students not otherwise involved in the study.
Prior to the start of data collection, the DCE instrument was piloted with a small group of students to make certain that the presentation was conceptually clear.
The questionnaire (see Additional file 1) was initially piloted on a small group of students to ensure clarity and lack of ambiguity.
Students fundraising for Netflix pilot A group of Cambridge students have raised more than £3,000 to fund a film project and pitch it to Netflix.
