We've all taken surveys, but how do we construct valid, useful surveys? Here, we provide links to online resources that illustrate good methods for developing questionnaires and surveys.
Survey Design Resources
Qualtrics
- Get access to Qualtrics by reading and filling out the Qualtrics Access Form.
- Learn to how to use Qualtrics at Kenyon from the Qualtrics Beginner's Guide.
- For information about Qualtrics' security please read the Security White Paper.
Survey Design and Question Wording
- A peer reviewed article of suggested methods for creating a survey
- A research methods course at UC Davis has online modules on aspects of research in Psychology, such as scaling and questionnaire construction.
- The Qualtrics blog provides a list of the most common mistakes made in question writing.
- Multiple pages on questionnaire design, including question wording, are available from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
- Iowa State University Extension services suggestions for Likert scale wording.
Kenyon Resources
- Contact the Institutional Review Board to check if your survey requires IRB approval.
- Kenyon students can use Qualtrics Survey Software for survey building and analysis.
- The LBIS website includes a portal to Kenyon College’s holdings, including access to electronic databases such as the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) collection. To access this resource from the above link, select “Databases A-Z” then go to "D-E" and select “ERIC” from the list of databases.