Module 10

Module 10

 

You’ll be sending me your draft survey soon… as soon as I get that, I’ll review and either approve or offer suggestions. Please do not start conducting your survey until I have reviewed it and replied. Remember to refer to your resources, especially  Questionnaire Research,  to resolve questions you have about how to prepare your survey. If you have unresolved questions, you can also include those for me when you send me your draft survey.

 

Since this survey is part of our class exercises and training activities, we do not need to go through the Institutional Review Board (IRB) before proceeding, but you do need to prepare a statement to provide your respondents which informs them in a systematic manner about what you are doing, why you are asking them to take your survey and other details. Below is a sample statement from the University of Maine website (https://umaine.edu/research-compliance/human-subjects/guidelines-class-projects-involving-human-subjects/).

 

Please include your draft statement when you send me your survey for review. Once your survey is ready to go, you’ll spend the rest of your Research Methods time this week getting started conducting your survey.

 

Here is an example of a posting for a survey:  NOTE:  If you use Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey, etc., the consent information should also be the first page of the survey.

This survey is for a class research project in (Course #/Name.) Our names are XXXXX. We are conducting a survey about XXX for a report and a class presentation.

Participation: You need to be at least 18 to participate. Participation is voluntary. You can stop the survey at any time or skip questions.  The survey should take only about 10 minutes to complete.

Risks: Risks for participating are minor—just your time.

Confidentiality: We are not collecting any names, so the survey is anonymous.

Presentation: We are going to use the information for a class presentation and then destroy survey data.

Contact Information: Please contact us if you have any questions: names/emails

Instructor: name and contact information)