Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Prior to Analysis
What would you like to discover?
Perceived competence
Preferences, satisfaction
Group differences
Demographics
Prior to Analysis
Your goals drive the make-up of the survey
analysis plan.
Prior to Analysis
Survey design & layout
Survey Design
Good questions reduce error
something consistently?
supposed to be measuring?
Construct Validity
Does your measure correlate with a theorized
concept of interest?
Pilot
Piloting the survey can inform:
Question clarity
Question format
Variance in responses
Survey Analysis
Using data from
Paper Surveys
SurveyMonkey
SelectSurvey.Net
Survey Analysis
Paper surveys
Survey Analysis
Paper surveys
Survey Analysis
SurveyMonkey
Survey Analysis
SelectSurvey.NET
Frequencies
Download all responses for further analysis
Select Export Data from Analyze page
Export Format CSV (excel)
Data Format SPSS Format Condensed
Data Cleaning
Process of detecting, diagnosing, and editing
faulty data
Basic Issues:
Data Cleaning
Inspect the data
Frequency distributions
Summary statistics
Graphical exploration of distributions
Scatter plots, box plots, histograms
Data Cleansing
Out of range
Delete values and determine how to recode if possible
Missing Values
Refusals (question sensitivity)
Dont know responses (cant remember)
Not applicable
Data processing errors
Questionnaire programming errors
Design factors
Attrition
Missing Data
Missing completely at random (MCAR)
Missing Data
Listwise or casewise data deletion: If a record has missing data
for any one variable used in a particular analysis, omit that entire
record from the analysis.
Default in most packages, including SPSS & SAS
Descriptive Statistics
Frequency distribution
Descriptive Statistics
Cross-tabs
Data Analysis
Measurement scale determines how the data
should be analyzed:
Data Analysis
Three instructors are evaluating preferences
Data Analysis
Nominal & ordinal variables are discrete
Grades
Age
Data Analysis
Charts
Data Analysis
Other descriptive statistics
Mean
Median
Mode
nominal data
Data Analysis
Other descriptive statistics
Interquartile range
Standard deviation
Correlations
Are the variables related?
Correlation
Which correlation coefficient to use?
Pearsons r
Mean Differences
Are there meaningful differences between
groups?
class sections
instructors
on-line vs. off-line courses
major vs. non-major
Mean Differences
Which test to run?
Presenting Results
Describe the purpose of the survey
On assessment reports
When the survey is new/still being fine tuned
Presenting Results
Present the breakdown of results
Conclusions
Recommendations
Presenting Results
Share results in formal venues
Familiarize yourself with key findings so that
Moving Forward
Continuously improve the survey
improvements
Compare with other assessment data for a
broader picture