@article{Oslawski-Lopez_Miller_2017, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Integrating a Collaborative Survey Research Project}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/integrating-a-collaborative-survey-research-project}, abstractNote={This activity integrates undergraduate and graduate Sociology students enrolled in different research methods courses through a semester-long, collaborative research project surveying a campus event. Although collaborative projects are not the norm in most American higher education institutions (Watermaurer and Obach 2007), collaborative projects are valuable pedagogical tools. The project begins with planning steps taken by the instructors including listing the project on the syllabus, locating an appropriate event to survey, speaking with the campus IRB office, and teaching students about research ethics and survey design. Once the planning is complete, students work on the project in the following order: questionnaire creation, data collection and entry, homework creation, analysis, tutoring, and writing the final report. The collaborative, team-based project moves back and forth between the undergraduate and graduate students. This allows undergraduates to get a low-stakes "taste" of the research process and graduates to assume leadership roles, as they revise the undergraduates’ work and provide mentorship. Another benefit of the project is that it provides students with hands-on experience in completing a research project from start to finish. In the write-up that follows, we list learning goals and assessments, the basic steps of the activity, and lastly, we include examples of the products of our iteration of this project.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Oslawski-Lopez, Jamie and Miller, Amanda}, year={2017}, month={Dec.} }