Must-have ingredients for a solid survey invitation

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…

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…

Now, THAT’s a very good question! Kim here, writing with the fabulous Sheila B. Robinson of the Evaluspheric Perceptions blog. We have been tweeting and emailing about challenges related to survey design and as a result, this is the first in a series of posts we have co-authored about our discussions. I (Kim) have recently…

I don’t know.  In 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High, high school Social Studies teacher Mr. Hand asks student Jeff Spicoli, “Why are you continuously late for this class Mr. Spicoli? Why do you shamelessly waste my time like this?” to which Spicoli responds, “I don’t know.”  https://youtu.be/bc2muGlQIlk Why didn’t Jeff Spicoli know the answer to…