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…
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…
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…
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. – Thomas Berger Hey readers, Kim here, writing once again with the marvelous Sheila Robinson, of the Evaluspheric Perceptions blog. It’s survey design season, so get ready to flex those question design muscles! Well, to be truthful, it’s always survey design season…
If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. – Edward Hodnett, 20th century poet and writer At Evaluation 2014, the American Evaluation Association’s annual conference, the incredible Sheila Robinson (find her over at Evaluspheric Perceptions) and I facilitated a 90-minute skill building workshop on survey question design. Sheila…
Kim here, writing with the wonderful Sheila Robinson of the Evaluaspheric Perceptions blog. This post highlights some favorite recommendations from our collective experiences in crafting survey questions. It is also a continuation of our earlier co-authored posts (here and here). 1. You can’t fly without a pilot! One of my [Sheila] graduate school advisors gave…