This session will cover the theoretical and practical aspects of surveys and survey design. Topics will include: pre-survey design, actualizing a survey, analyzing the results, why and when surveys are appropriate, determining the survey audience, existing Yale surveys, and some survey tools popular at Yale including Survey Monkey, ClassesV2, QuestionMark, Sharepoint, Qualtrics and ITS provided solutions. Staff from the Stat Lab will touch on some of the salient topics from their Survey Design workshop (free to the Yale community) and discuss the expertise available to the Yale community with quantitative and qualitative (text) analysis and tools such as SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys and NVivo. Presenters will be Themba Flowers, Manager of the Social Science Stat Lab and Scott Matheson, Web Manager at the Yale University Library.

1. Teaching with
Technology Tuesday
Surveys
Considerations, Tools & Analysis
Themba Flowers, StatLab
Sherlock Campbell, StatLab
Scott Matheson, Library

2. Today’s takeaways
•Do you need a survey?
•Designing, actualizing, analyzing
•Survey tools overview and demonstration
•Survey resources at Yale

3. Background - Who are we?
•Scott – web manager, library
•Themba – manager of StatLab
•Sherlock - Statlab Statistician

4. Do you need a survey?
•Question:
–is the data already out there?
–who is the audience?
–what kind of information do you want to capture?
–what’s the time frame?
•Beware “survey fatigue”
•Determing the most appropriate tool
–might not be a survey

5. Survey alternatives
•Focus group
•Usability testing
•Log files (for online)
•Clickers or InstaPoll

6. Alternative: usability testing
Think-aloud protocols
•Test objectives
•Recruit 5 to 8 user-participants
•Morae for recording and analysis

7. Alternative: web analytics

8. Yale resources
•Sakai
–survey tool
–polling tool
•Qualtrics
–Yale has a site license.
•ITS options
–Sharepoint: http://yale.edu/its/web/sharepoint/
–Custom surveys: http://yale.edu/its/web/surveys/

9. Alternative: clickers or InstaPoll site

10. Tools: classesv2 survey or poll

11. Tools: classesv2 survey or poll

12. Tools: Sharepoint demo

13. Tools: Qualtrics
•Yale site license.

14. Tools: Qualtrics
•Quick demo:
http://www.qualtrics.com/tutorials/questiontypes.html

15. StatLab
(Social Science Research Services)
•What we do:
–Before you start
–executing the tool
–analyzing the results

16. Resources
•StatLab consultants and staff
•StatCat data sets from Library
•StatLab Workshops
–Next session: Friday April 9th 1-3pm Main StatLab
•Analysis tools
–qualitative analysis (SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys)
–quantitative analysis
–data transforms

17. Yale resources (again)
•Sakai (classesV2)
•Qualtrics
•Sharepoint: (Library and ITS)
–http://yale.edu/its/web/sharepoint/
•Custom surveys:
–http://yale.edu/its/web/surveys/
•Survey monkey
–if you’re going to use it, speak with Scott first.

18. Questions?
Themba Flowers
themba.flowers@yale.edu
Sherlock Campbell
sherlock.campbell@yale.edu
Scott Matheson
scott.matheson@yale.edu
http://yale.edu/statlab