Must-have ingredients for a solid survey invitation

Kim here, writing again with co-author and co-conspirator, Sheila B Robinson. Lately, we’ve been thinking about the many balancing tensions we often face in designing quality survey questions – whether we’re developing our own surveys or helping others design and refine theirs.  What do we mean by balancing tensions? On the one hand, we like…

Earlier this year, I was thrilled to meet Teresa Koberstein, an arts administration consultant putting Designing Quality Survey Questions to use in her practice. Teresa reached out to learn more about the text and how it came to be, and we quickly realized we had at least a couple of research-minded mutual acquaintances in the…

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…