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Survey methods · Undergraduate · Math
Learning objectives from the Survey methods syllabus, grouped by unit. Click an objective for study materials.
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Undergraduate Survey methods — outline derived from course README sections and typical US statistics syllabi (OpenIntro / standard OER where applicable).
Survey design
- Survey modes: web, phone, and mail — Survey modes: web, phone, and mail
- Mixed-mode — Mixed-mode
- Question wording and response bias — Question wording and response bias
- Scale construction — Scale construction
- Index validation — Index validation
- Pilot testing — Pilot testing
- Cognitive interviewing — Cognitive interviewing
- Sampling frames and coverage error — Sampling frames and coverage error
Field operations and quality
- Interviewer training — Interviewer training
- Supervision — Supervision
- Nonresponse follow-up strategies — Nonresponse follow-up strategies
- Data editing — Data editing
- Imputation (introduction) — Imputation (introduction)
- Total survey error model — Total survey error model
- Ethical guidelines for human subjects research — Ethical guidelines for human subjects research
Analysis of survey data
- Design-based estimation with weights — Design-based estimation with weights
- Variance estimation for complex designs — Variance estimation for complex designs
- Analyzing attitudinal — Analyzing attitudinal
- Likert-scale data — Likert-scale data
- Trend analysis across survey waves — Trend analysis across survey waves
Learning objectives
Click an objective for study materials.
Survey design
- Survey modes: web, phone, and mail — Survey modes: web, phone, and mail
- Mixed-mode — Mixed-mode
- Question wording and response bias — Question wording and response bias
- Scale construction — Scale construction
- Index validation — Index validation
- Pilot testing — Pilot testing
- Cognitive interviewing — Cognitive interviewing
- Sampling frames and coverage error — Sampling frames and coverage error
Field operations and quality
- Interviewer training — Interviewer training
- Supervision — Supervision
- Nonresponse follow-up strategies — Nonresponse follow-up strategies
- Data editing — Data editing
- Imputation (introduction) — Imputation (introduction)
- Total survey error model — Total survey error model
- Ethical guidelines for human subjects research — Ethical guidelines for human subjects research
Analysis of survey data
- Design-based estimation with weights — Design-based estimation with weights
- Variance estimation for complex designs — Variance estimation for complex designs
- Analyzing attitudinal — Analyzing attitudinal
- Likert-scale data — Likert-scale data
- Trend analysis across survey waves — Trend analysis across survey waves
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- Common Mistakes
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- Answer key
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- Survey design
Survey modes: web, phone, and mail
Coming soon - Field operations and quality
Interviewer training
Coming soon - Analysis of survey data
Design-based estimation with weights
Coming soon
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