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Ana Villar
Ph.D. student
Research Area:
 Cross-Cultural Survey Research
Resume:
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Contact information:
 mtvillar@unlserve.unl.edu
Expected graduation:
 Spring 2009
Brief Bio:
 Ana Villar graduated in Psychology from the USC (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), where she also got two graduate level degrees on Consumer Behavior and Social and Market Research, completing a thesis on the construction of a human values scale for market segmentation. While at this University, she served as interviewer, data analyst and data entry supervisor for the Commercial Psychology Research Group. Instructional experience includes teaching as an assistant of Research Methods courses (USC) and teaching SPSS courses at the University of Salamanca. In August of 2004, Ana completed her MS in Quantitative Analysis in Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Brussels, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in the Survey Research and Methodology Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her current research interests and expertise focus on methodological problems in cross-cultural survey research and mental health cross-cultural surveys. She was a guest researcher at ZUMA, Mannheim (Germany).
Journal/Conference papers presented:
  • Understanding Effects of Different English to Spanish Translations: A case study of ISSP attitudinal questions
    Author/Authors: Villar, A., Bautista, R., Palmer, D., Abundis, F., Harkness, J.
    AAPOR. May 2006 - Montreal, Canada.
  • Little things matter sometimes: Effects of survey translation
    Author/Authors: Bautista, R., Villar, A., Palmer, D. Abundis, F., Harkness, J.
    CSDI. 2006 - The Hague, Netherlands.
  • Developing Answer Scales in Multilingual Studies
    Author/Authors: Harkness, J., Chin, T., Yang, Y., Bilgen, I., Villar, A., Zeng, W., and members of the ISSP Questionnaire Design & Translation work groups
    The Fifth International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI). March 2007 - Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Guidelines for Best Practice in Cross-Cultural Surveys
    Author/Authors: Alcser, K., Clemens, J., Lien, C., Pennell, B., (ISR); Harkness, J., Villar, A., Bilgen, I. (UNL)
    The Fifth International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI). March 2007 - Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Answer Scales, Translation and Response Styles
    Author/Authors: Villar, A.
    The Fifth International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI). March 2007 - Chicago, IL, USA.
  • What’s behind Cultural Differences in Response Styles?
    Author/Authors: Villar, Ana
    Conference on Multinational, Multicultural and Multiregional Survey Methods (3mc). June 2008 - Berlin, Germany.
  • An Exploration of the Causes of Response Styles with a Multilevel Modeling Approach
    Author/Authors: Villar, Ana; Yang, Yongwei; & Chin, Tzu-Yun
    MAPOR. November 2008 - Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Developing a coding scheme for interpreted interviews
    Author/Authors: Villar, Ana; Harkness, Janet; Kruse, Yelena Kruse; Steele, Clarissa; and Wang, Ying
    Sixth International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation, March 2009 - Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  • Survey Translation Evaluation: Back Translation versus Expert Review
    Author/Authors: Harkness, Janet; Villar, Ana; Kephart, Kathleen; Schoua-Glusberg, Alisa
    AAPOR. May 2009 - Hollywood, FL, USA.
  • Using Interpreters in Telephone Surveys
    Author/Authors: Harkness, Janet; Villar, Ana; Kruse, Yelena; Steele, Clarissa; Wang, Ying; Branden, Laura; Edwards, Brad
    AAPOR. May 2009 - Hollywood, FL, USA.