Available soon! I’m so proud to announce that Designing Quality Survey Questions will be available a bit later this month! Sheila B. Robinson and I have been working on this text for several years — which likely explains why this blog has been rather quiet. We are thrilled to share it with anyone and everyone remotely interested in survey design! Sheila and I began our collaboration in 2012 with a twitter conversation and the realization that we shared both frustration about the existence of SO MUCH poor survey design work, and a desire to help researchers do better. This book is a handy

Yep, it’s another great co-post with the splendid Sheila B Robinson! Almost everyone (probably everyone, actually) who has written a survey has discovered something they wish they had done differently after the survey had already launched, or closed, with data already in hand. This is one of the many ways in which surveys are just like any written work: the moment you’ve submitted it, you inevitably spot a typo, a missing word, or some other mistake, no matter how many editing rounds you undertook. Often it’s a small but important error: forgetting a bit of the instructions or an important

When Sheila Beth Robinson and I write together, we usually refer to each other with a superlative – fabulous, magnificent, wonderful, etc. (all totally accurate, of course) – but now, I’m even prouder to call her co-author! Yes, we are in the throes of writing a book on survey design! After a very successful presentation to a packed room at Evaluation 2014 in Denver, CO (if you were there, thanks!) we met with an editor at Sage Publications to pitch our idea and now we’re busy fleshing out chapters and excited to share bits with our readers along the way.