Exploration 3: Evaluating a Survey

Assignment by Molly Kirby, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Overview

This introduction to survey design teaches students to critically engage with surveys: to consider how choices like phrasing and measures might shape their data and bolster their argument (or not). This assignment leads into Exploration 4: Survey Development in CODE123: Research and Systems Thinking, and it prepares students to develop and deploy their own surveys in their research teams.

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Author

  • Dr. Meg Smith is a digital humanist and medieval historian. At SIUE, she serves as Interim Director of the IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Technical Director for the CODES program.