PA 5933 is also offered in Spring 2025
PA 5933 is also offered in Spring 2024
PA 5933 is also offered in Fall 2022
PA 5933 is also offered in Spring 2022
Fall 2020 | PA 5933 Section 001: Survey Methods: Designing Effective Questionnaires (33014)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 2 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Partially Online
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Graduate Student
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Mon 04:00PM - 05:40PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 2509/08/2020 - 12/16/2020UMTC, West BankUMN ONLINE-HYB
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (16 of 18 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Applied (hands-on) introduction to survey questionnaire design. Student teams design a questionnaire for a real or imaginary client, typically a non-profit/NGO or governmental agency. For example, students may draft and revise questions about respondents' demographics and employment; life histories; knowledge, use, and opinions about services; and anxiety and well-being. The class will spend two weeks on each module, actively engaging in class about draft questions, and through that practice, learning how to improve them. Survey questions will be entered into SurveyToGo, an app used offline on Windows devices to collect data, and questionnaire will be tested on a small number of volunteers. Students will learn: - The process of questionnaire design in a team - Basic pitfalls of survey design - names, definitions, examples. - How to use Excel to track questions, coded responses, and prompts for interviewers - How to use interviewing software SurveyToGo This class is not a substitute for a comprehensive survey research class or a statistical course on sampling and weighting.
- Class Notes:
- Class will be offered HyFlex. Students may participate either In Person or Remotely (synchronously online) at the scheduled time. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?dlevison+PA5934+Fall2020
- Class Description:
- This 2-credit full-semester class provides an applied (hands-on) introduction to designing survey questionnaires. Students will learn:·How to design a questionnaire in a team·Best practices for survey and question design.·Basic pitfalls of survey design - names, definitions,examples.·How to use Excel to track questions, coded responses, and prompts for interviewers·How to use interviewing software SurveyToGo (but NOT in Fall 2020 -- too hard to do remotely -- although we'll have a demonstration of it)This class is not the equivalent of a comprehensive survey research class (e.g. EPSY 5244 or PubH 6810) or a statistical course on sampling and weighting (e.g. STAT 5201). Instead, it takes a learning-by-doing approach to one part of the survey process: designing questions for a questionnaire.
Each time it is taught, student teams will design a questionnaire for a real or imaginary client, such as a non-profit/NGO or governmental agency. In 2020 the client is a UMN doctoral student studying Black women who obtained PhDs (in the US) while raising biological, adoptive or foster children. Student teams will draft and revise questions about respondents':
·Demographics and employment·Life histories (mainly related to study, career, and parenting choices)·Knowledge, use, and opinions about services -- possibly related to school options during the pandemic·Anxiety and well-being (or similar concepts)The class will spend two weeks on each module, actively engaging in class about draft questions and through that practice learning how to improve them. Students will not conduct the survey, apart from a few test interviews.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Any graduate student.
- Grading:
- Grade break-down (approximate):60% Teams: ten items by @ 6% each - first drafts; second drafts with tracked changes. (#1-10)5% Teams: turn in final questionnaire in Excel (#11)5% Individual: cognitive interviewing memo re: pilot test of survey questions15% Individual: posts & mini-quizzes15% Class participation, including group members grading each other
- Exam Format:
- None
- Class Format:
- Mini-lectures & discussions. The class will be hybrid: simultaneously remote and in-person. In-person classes are expected to meet every week until Thanksgiving.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33014/1209
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/dlevison_PA5933_Fall2022.pdf (Fall 2022)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/dlevison_PA5933_Spring2022.pdf (Spring 2022) - Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 July 2020
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