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Best Practices: From Research Problem to Survey Administration
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Keywords

Qualtrics
Survey Design
Survey Administration

How to Cite

Lamphere, Jenna. 2018. “Best Practices: From Research Problem to Survey Administration”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, February. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/best-practices-from-research-problem-to-survey.

Abstract

With this assignment, students practice best practices in writing good survey questions, designing an attractive web-based questionnaire, and administering the survey. Students write survey questions for a pre-defined research problem, design an attractive questionnaire for their questions, and learn how to administer the questionnaire using Qualtrics, an...

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Details

Subject Area(s):
Research Methods
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 300
Class Size(s):
Any

Usage Notes

The purpose of this assignment is for students to practice writing good survey questions, designing an attractive web-based questionnaire using Qualtrics Research Suite, and administering the survey. The assignment can be modified to use other web-based survey platforms, such as Survey Monkey. The assignment can be completed as a group or individually. I...

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Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

  1. Students learn how to write good survey questions for a particular research problem.
  2. Students learn how to design an attractive questionnaire.
  3. Student learn how to draft an effective invitational e-mail and administer a web-based survey.

Goal Assessment(s):

  1. Student construct at least five survey questions using best practices (e.g., avoid bias, double-barreled questions, jargon, etc.).
  2. Students use the questions they constructed to create an attractive web-based questionnaire by adhering to well-established guidelines.
  3. Student learn how to draft an effective invitational e-mail and administer a web-based survey.

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