Initial Survey Design
Develop an initial survey based on a topic of interest in your personal or professional life.
Use the Initial Survey Design Template [DOC] to complete the assessment. This assessment is the first step in the process of designing a survey that you will evaluate in this course.
Identify a topic of interest in your personal or professional life. Explain your reasons for selecting the topic and your thoughts about the study design.
As you fill out the template, keep in mind that surveys are usually done to answer some sort of question. In other words, you get to make the subject of the statistical study something to which you can relate.
Make sure you address each of the five questions in detail in the template:
Describe the topic of your survey.
Explain why the topic is important. (How might the results of the study be used in your personal or professional life?)
Identify and describe the potential variables to be included in the data-gathering and describe why they are appropriate.
Define the population to be studied.
Explain why this is the best population for your study compared to other potential populations.
