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Resources for Conducting Surveys
Institutional Analysis
- Our office performs a variety of survey research for the CU-Boulder campus. Our principal goal
in conducting surveys is to provide useful information for making decisions that affect the
academic environment of the campus.
- We conduct several cyclical surveys (e.g., Alumni, Student Climate, Senior, Graduate, National Survey
of Student Engagement), and we provide custom survey research for campus offices and programs. We can
assist with all aspects of surveying: consulting and questionnaire design, sampling, administration
(Web- or paper-based), data collection and compilation, statistical analysis, and reporting.
- Our Web-based survey software can handle a variety of types of survey questions.
Several examples of questions and complete questionnaires are provided in the links below.
- If a survey client wishes to offer a financial incentive in order to encourage people to respond to a
particular survey, then the client will need to pay for the incentive; Institutional Analysis is unable
to pay for financial incentives for custom surveys.
- We prefer to conduct Web-based surveys, but we will also conduct surveys using paper questionnaires if the Web
cannot be used for some reason. We currently do not have the resources to conduct telephone surveys.
Other Web-based Surveying Options
External Services
- Zoomerang is an external product available for an
annual or
monthly fee. It allows users to design and administer their own
questionnaires via the Web, and it offers some basic statistical analysis.
It is also available free of charge for short, quick surveys of no more than
30 questions and 100 responses, with a turn-around time of 10 days or less.
We have used Zoomerang on several occasions; please
let us know if you have questions about this product.
- SurveyMonkey is
another external product, available at different service and
pricing levels. It can also be used for free at the most basic level--i.e.,
for a very short survey of no more than 10 questions and 100 responses.
Although it is not quite as sophisticated as Zoomerang, it has many advanced
survey design features and is less expensive. You can try out a
sample web questionnaire that uses SurveyMonkey
to see a demo of what it can do. As does Zoomerang, it also provides easy sharing of files and aggregate results with other users.
Internal Services
- CUConnect, the student web portal, provides departments the
opportunity to conduct a quick, informal student opinion poll. The poll is
usually posted for 7 to 10 days, and is posted on each CU-Boulder
students' CUConnect site. Contact Melinda Easter for additional
information.
- StudentVoice: The division of Student Affairs has a site license with StudentVoice.,
which is another web survey design product available to units within Student
Affairs who are interested in evaluation and assessment of their programs.
Any Student Affairs' unit interested in using StudentVoice should first
contact
deborah.viles@colorado.edu, 303-735-6801, with a brief description of
their project and its objectives, and then review Student Affairs's posted
guidelines and procedures
for working with StudentVoice. There is also information on webinars and
training under the "News & Announcements" section of
StudentVoice for
those who need assistance in learning how to construct a survey.
- The Testing and Assessment Center (formerly Scanning
Services) can scan and compile survey responses that have been collected on a standard scannable form.
Information on Emailing Students
- Information Technology Services (ITS) has specific rules that university faculty and staff need to adhere to
when sending out mass emails to students. Please see ITS's
Bulk E-mail Guidelines for further information.
Contacting Recent CU graduates
- CU has a program called Email for Life in which graduating
students automatically retain their registered colorado.edu e-mail addresses accessible through CULink. In May of 2008, all graduating
CU students were automatically signed up for this service. Previous to this date, graduating students had to specifically request to be
enrolled in Email for Life. Those who had not elected to participate in this program prior to May, 2008, are now eligible to enroll.
Examples of Item Types and Complete Questionnaires
Complete questionnaires
Item types
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