1. Survey Design with the Office of Assessment
Heather Rabalais
Research Analyst
Office of Assessment

2. What we do Analysis & Reporting Departmental Surveys
University Wide Surveys
Survey Design

3. What can we help you with
Survey Hosting
Collected Data
Survey Design
Data Analysis

4. Survey Design
The key to obtaining good data is to develop a good survey questionnaire
What are your objectives?
Keep it short, but ensure you capture all the information you need
What type of question will generate the best response?
Structured
Non-structured or open-ended

5. Survey Design Continued
Clear intentions and clear instructions
Make sure your questions are unbiased
Use familiar language
Order and grouping are important
Formatting is important
Ask questions that can be answered by your participants
Ex. How much time do you spend every week studying?
Ask one question at a time (don’t use double barrel questions)
Example: How have the faculty and students responded to the new systems?

6. Survey design continued
Don’t ask “loaded” questions
Don’t use overlapping alternatives
Don’t use words that are indefinite in time or imprecise
Most common to use 5 or 7 point Likert scale
Degrees of opinion/agreement, importance, frequency, & likelihood
Quantitative data that is relative easy to analyze
Con- social desirability

7. Don’t forget to pilot your survey!!!!!!

8. Survey Hosting SNAP Surveys Qualtrix Online Paper Combination
Automatically ed invitations
Optional participant tracking
Smart phone and tablet accessible
Online data analysis
Optional SPSS and Excel output
Paper
Can be scanned
Combination
If needed, can combine online and paper surveys
Qualtrix

9. Departmental Surveys Survey Toolbox
All your surveys and results in one place!
Online Analyses, SPSS and Excel formats
We take care of all the hassle (No ing, reminders, etc)
Accessible at any time and from any location
Support from the Office of Assessment
Can be combined with other data (Ex. University-wide surveys)

10. Collected data We have data from:
Graduating Student Survey
Future Plans Survey
CIRP
NSSE
Other local department surveys
We also have sample questions from previously used instruments to help with survey design

11. Data Analysis & Reporting
We can combine formats to make one dataset
Help with statistical analyses
SPSS & Excel
2 Semi-Competent Research Analysts
Help with reporting
Variety of formats

12. Questions?