Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. What Can Rackham Do for You? (July 12, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52881 52881-13105638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 12, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Learn what resources and programs Rackham provides to support you. Pre-registration required.

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Presentation Fri, 06 Jul 2018 11:28:11 -0400 2018-07-12T15:00:00-04:00 2018-07-12T16:30:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Rackham Graduate School Presentation Image of the Rackham Building
Where A Law Degree Can Take You (September 20, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55520 55520-13752400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: BULA -- Black Undergraduate Law Association

BULA is hosting our first speaker of the year! We welcome Sarah Zearfoss, the UMich Law School Admissions Dean. She will speak about her law school experience, legal career, and transition to working in law schools. It is a great opportunity to explore what a law degree can do for you or get an in-depth look at law schools and appellate processes.

Come enjoy food, fellowship, and answered questions!

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Presentation Mon, 17 Sep 2018 21:53:52 -0400 2018-09-20T18:30:00-04:00 2018-09-20T20:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) BULA -- Black Undergraduate Law Association Presentation
The Ross Effect (September 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55018 55018-13665226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Ross One Year Graduate Programs

Employers look for the skills you’re developing in your undergraduate degree, like the ability to understand complex concepts and deliver creative solutions. But, connecting with companies and highlighting these skills is not always easy. Join us at "The Ross Effect" to learn how three outstanding Ross graduate programs, the Master of Accounting, the Master of Management and the Master of Supply Chain Management, will leverage your undergraduate training for a smooth and successful transition into the workforce.

This event is being held exclusively for non-Ross University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) students. The event is being held on the 5th floor of the Blau/Kresge side of the Ross Building, in the Blau Colloquium.

Questions? Email TheRossEffect@umich.edu

Register at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ross-effect-how-a-ross-graduate-degree-amplifies-your-toolkit-registration-48421327494

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Presentation Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:53:32 -0400 2018-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Ross One Year Graduate Programs Presentation Michigan Ross Logo
Duderstadt Center Fall Open House (October 5, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55192 55192-13698256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

Join us Friday, October 5th (12-6pm)

The Duderstadt Center provides a nexus for creative and technological innovation across all disciplines.

Come see what new resources we are unveiling for the Fall semester, available to the entire University of Michigan community!

This is your first opportunity to experience the all new Visualization Studio, a powerful digital maker-space equipped with high end virtual reality development workstations, play areas and 3D modeling tools. Staffed by industry experts with a proven track record of successful augmented and virtual reality development in grants all across campus. Come experience the MIDEN, a 10'x10' immersive virtual reality room, and see how instructors and students are using VR as a platform to revolutionize teaching and learning.

Our recently unveiled Fabrication Studio is also available, equipped with an assortment of high end and self service 3D printers, laser cutters, electronic workbenches and a variety of hand tools. We will also soon be re-opening a freshly remodeled Design Studio come Winter - come see what will soon be a creative hub to suit all your artistic needs. Light tables, down shooters and a Hollywood mocap system for animation, large format scanners and photography tables, smart displays for iterative design and ideation, and various drafting/drawing tools.

Learn more at: http://www.dc.umich.edu/openhouse

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Community Service Wed, 12 Sep 2018 09:52:59 -0400 2018-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Community Service Duderstadt Center Open House
Duderstadt Center Fall Open House (October 5, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55197 55197-13698262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center

Join us Friday, October 5th (12-6pm)

The Duderstadt Center provides a nexus for creative and technological innovation across all disciplines.

Come see what new resources we are unveiling for the Fall semester, available to the entire University of Michigan community!

This is your first opportunity to experience the all new Visualization Studio, a powerful digital maker-space equipped with high end virtual reality development workstations, play areas and 3D modeling tools. Staffed by industry experts with a proven track record of successful augmented and virtual reality development in grants all across campus. Come experience the MIDEN, a 10'x10' immersive virtual reality room, and see how instructors and students are using VR as a platform to revolutionize teaching and learning.

Our recently unveiled Fabrication Studio is also available, equipped with an assortment of high end and self service 3D printers, laser cutters, electronic workbenches and a variety of hand tools. We will also soon be re-opening a freshly remodeled Design Studio come Winter - come see what will soon be a creative hub to suit all your artistic needs. Light tables, down shooters and a Hollywood mocap system for animation, large format scanners and photography tables, smart displays for iterative design and ideation, and various drafting/drawing tools.

Learn more at: http://www.dc.umich.edu/openhouse

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Community Service Wed, 12 Sep 2018 09:58:01 -0400 2018-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Community Service Duderstadt Center Open House
2018 MIDAS Annual Symposium (October 8, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45230 45230-11710204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 8, 2018 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Featured speakers:

“Big Data in Manufacturing Systems with Internet-of-Things Connectivity”
Dawn Tilbury, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan.

“Big (Network) Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science”
Patrick Wolfe, Frederick L. Hovde Dean of Science, Purdue University.

“The Data Science Expert in the Room”
Katherine Ensor, Director, Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems (CoFES), Rice University.

“The Elements of Translational Data Science”
Raghu Machiraju, Interim Director, Translational Data Analytics Institute, The Ohio State University

The symposium will also include:

Research talks from U-M investigators
A poster session and student poster competition
Industry perspectives on data science and social good.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:01:31 -0400 2018-10-08T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
2018 MIDAS Annual Symposium (October 9, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45230 45230-11710205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Featured speakers:

“Big Data in Manufacturing Systems with Internet-of-Things Connectivity”
Dawn Tilbury, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan.

“Big (Network) Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science”
Patrick Wolfe, Frederick L. Hovde Dean of Science, Purdue University.

“The Data Science Expert in the Room”
Katherine Ensor, Director, Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems (CoFES), Rice University.

“The Elements of Translational Data Science”
Raghu Machiraju, Interim Director, Translational Data Analytics Institute, The Ohio State University

The symposium will also include:

Research talks from U-M investigators
A poster session and student poster competition
Industry perspectives on data science and social good.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:01:31 -0400 2018-10-09T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Finding Your Center: Staying Grounded While Navigating Decisions (October 18, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56328 56328-13878539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Every day, whether big or small, hard or easy, you make decisions; from the kind of breakfast you will eat to changing jobs or returning to school. These choices, although a part of life, can be stressful. This interactive workshop is created to dedicate a space for you to hit ‘pause’ and find your center. You will leave equipped with tools and resources to help reduce stress by staying grounded while navigating the many decisions of life.

This workshop is free and open to the public.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Oct 2018 11:22:26 -0400 2018-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T14:30:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar CEW+ Logo
Engineering Education Research Graduate Program Prospective Student Open House (October 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54682 54682-13636277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

Visit the EER website for full details and to register: https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eKff9UWxwIdyeUJ

UM has just launched a brand new graduate program in Engineering Education Research (EER), and students from all institutions are invited to attend the Prospective Student Open House on Monday October 22, 2018 from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm in Ann Arbor, MI. Participants will meet with faculty, postdocs, and graduate students, tour the beautiful UM campus and EER lab spaces, and learn about career opportunities as a UM graduate in this field. Note that applicants to the EER graduate program must have Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in a traditional engineering discipline.

Please register to attend at this open house registration site, and please forward this link (https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eKff9UWxwIdyeUJ) to any friends who may be interested. A limited number of travel grants are available to offset the costs of traveling to Ann Arbor.

Can't make it to the open house but interested in applying? Visit the EER website at https://eer.engin.umich.edu/ to learn more about the graduate program. We hope you will consider UM as you decide to pursue your graduate studies in engineering education.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 04 Sep 2018 12:32:39 -0400 2018-10-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Engineering Office of Student Affairs Reception / Open House Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
DAAS Graduate Student Open House (October 24, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56847 56847-14012667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 11:30am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Join us for lunch to learn more about
our Graduate Certificate Program and
other graduate student opportunities
at DAAS. Meet DAAS faculty, staff, and
other graduate students and come
through for a chance to win DAAS gear!

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Reception / Open House Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:14:39 -0400 2018-10-24T11:30:00-04:00 2018-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Reception / Open House Haven Hall
2018 NERS Bootcamp (October 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52020 52020-12362861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

WHO: We are looking for undergraduate junior and seniors from nuclear engineering, electrical engineering and computer science, mechanical engineering, physics, etc.

Apply now for the October 26, 2018 Bootcamp (deadline to apply: August 30) !

Join us for a one-day bootcamp to learn about how you can launch your career and change the world with a graduate degree in Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences! Our faculty, staff, and students will be available to tell you about graduate school, including how to develop a great application, topics of research, life on campus, funding, etc. We will have presentations, panel discussions, and mixers. If selected, we will cover your travel costs to and from Ann Arbor, MI, accommodation, and food.

Apply at: https://goo.gl/forms/tymlXZoKlwBeD1ny1

Download the flyer at:
https://ners.engin.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2018/04/Reboot-Flier-2018-final.pdf

SCHEDULE:

October 25: Dinner mixer with current PhD students

October 26:

08:00 Welcome and Introduction to NERS (led by NERS faculty)
• Impact of NERS on societal issues
• Milestones and timeline to PhD
• Masters program
• Student support (Research Assistant, Student Instructor, Fellowships)

09:00 Laboratory Tours (guided by NERS PhD students)

11:00 Part 1. Improve your application to graduate school (led by NERS faculty)
• Procuring great letter writers
• Research and personal statements
• GRE/TOEFL
Part 2. Future careers in Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
• Industry, National Laboratory, Academia

12:00 Lunch with current NERS PhD students
Panel - Life as a PhD student in NERS (current NERS PhD students)

13:00 Learn about NERS research options
• Break-out sessions with fission, materials, measurements, and plasmas

16:00 Depart

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 01 Oct 2018 15:05:55 -0400 2018-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Careers / Jobs NERS bootcamp flyer image
Michigan Public Health Prospective Graduate Student Day (October 27, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56659 56659-13960601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 8:30am
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: School of Public Health

Learn more about Michigan Public Health's graduate programs at Prospective Student Day on Saturday, October 27.

You'll connect with current students and faculty, discuss pressing public health topics, and learn how you can join our pursuit of optimal health for individuals, communities, and entire populations.

You will have the opportunity to learn more about what it is like to be a student in the following graduate departments:

*Epidemiology
*Environmental Health Sciences
*Health Behavior Health Education
*Health Management and Policy
*Nutritional Sciences

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Other Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:41:42 -0400 2018-10-27T08:30:00-04:00 2018-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower School of Public Health Other School of Public Health
Winter Off-Campus Housing Fair (February 13, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49829 49829-14032724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Beyond the Diag

In search of off-campus housing? The Beyond the Diag Program invites you to join us for our Winter Off-Campus Housing Fair!

This fair will provide the perfect opportunity for students and parents to explore off-campus housing options face-to-face with local property managers, ask questions of current off-campus Neighborhood Ambassadors, and learn about campus resources that can aid in the housing search.

Join us and learn about life Beyond the Diag!

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Fair / Festival Fri, 19 Oct 2018 12:07:14 -0400 2019-02-13T11:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T14:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Beyond the Diag Fair / Festival People talking about housing
Hair'itage - The Journey of Sistahs with Their Hair (February 15, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59648 59648-14767255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 8:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. - ZPHIB

Hair'itage The Play: The journey of Sistahs with Their Hair is a captivating play that tells the story of sistahs and their journey with their hair. Each sistah shares their love-hate relationship with their hair; telling secret wishes and fears, jealousy and adoration, and the acceptance or rejection from their lovers, mothers, bosses, friends, and self. Playgoers leave in awes - empowered. Some even shed tears of joy, as they can relate to the storyline from a personal perspective. Hair'itage is a journey that women and men, from all walks of life, socio-economic backgrounds, and cultural backgrounds will enjoy.

HAIR'itage has ben performed in cities across the US including:
New York City - Brooklyn, NY - Somerset, NJ - Philadelphia, PA - Baltimore, MD, Detroit, MI - Los Angeles, CA.

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Performance Sun, 13 Jan 2019 03:09:45 -0500 2019-02-15T20:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T22:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. - ZPHIB Performance HAIR’itage Flyer
The 2nd Annual Data for Public Good Symposium (February 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60915 60915-14988672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Do you have experience in working alongside community partners in data analysis or program evaluation? Do you want to connect with others who are using their skills for public good? National efforts from organizations such as DataKind, Data Science for Social Good, and Statistics without Borders have been expanding in recent years as more individuals recognize their potential to impact social change. Great things can happen when individuals are empowered to dedicate time, resources, and knowledge to the pursuit of public good. Whether we work in the foreground or the background, we can all contribute to improving the lives of those around us.

Statistics in the Community (STATCOM), in collaboration with the Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research (CEDER) and the Community Technical Assistance Collaborative (CTAC), invite you to attend the 2nd Annual Data for Public Good Symposium hosted by the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS). The symposium showcase the many research efforts and community-based partnerships at U-M that focus on improving humanity by using data for public good. If you are interested in attending, please register in the link below.

Presenters:
- Partners for Preschool: The Added Value of Learning Activities at Home During the Preschool Year, Amanda Ketner, School of Education
- University-Community Partnership to Support Ambitious STEM Teaching: Leveraging University of Michigan expertise in education, research, and evaluation to support innovative, interactive teaching across the S.E. Michigan region and beyond, C. S. Hearn, Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research (CEDER)
- Open Data Flint, Stage II, Kaneesha Wallace, MICHR
- Research-Practice Partnerships at the Youth Policy Lab, A Foster, ISR Youth Policy Lab and School of Education
- The LOOP Estimator: Adjusting for Covariates in Randomized Experiments, Edward Wu, Statistics
- Barrier Busters: Unconditional Cash Transfers as a Strategy to Promote Economic Self-Sufficiency, Elise Gahan, School of Public Health
- Implementing Trauma-Informed Care at University Libraries, Monte-Angel Richardson, School of Social Work
- Why did the global crude oil price start to rise again after 2016?, Shin Heuk Kang, Economics
Poverty and economic hardship in Michigan communities: Data from the Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS), Natalie Fitzpatrick, Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy
Understanding Networks of Influence on U.S. Congressional Members’ Public Personae on Twitter, Angela Schopke, Chris Bredernitz, Caroline Hodge, School of Information

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 07 Feb 2019 10:52:27 -0500 2019-02-19T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T16:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium 2nd Annual Data for
ChE GradExpo 2019: Explore Graduate Studies in Chemical Engineering (April 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52197 52197-12528871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

** Applications are currently closed at this time. **

Students from all institutions are invited to apply to apply for ChE GradExpo 2019: Explore Graduate Studies in Chemical Engineering.

What Is It?
ChE GradExpo is an immersive 1-day workshop at the University of Michigan that gives undergraduate sophomores and juniors in the United States exclusive access to outstanding faculty and graduate students, who will help participants decode the graduate school application process and discover the opportunities that a chemical engineering graduate degree can unlock. Non-U-M participants will receive travel awards.

Event Details:
Who: A one-day workshop for sophomores and juniors considering graduate school
When: 9 am-5 pm EST on Friday, April 12, 2019
Where: The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor campus (Lurie Engineering Center and the North Campus Research Complex)
Cost: Non-U-M participants will receive travel awards

Workshop Highlights:
- "Life as a PhD student" – Q&A panel with current graduate students
- In-lab presentations of current research
- Lunch with faculty and graduate students
- “Academia vs. Industry” – Q&A panels with current faculty and industry partners
- Clinic on "How to Prepare a Strong Graduate School Application"
- Opportunity to receive one-on-one feedback from faculty on your application

How Much Does It Cost?
There are no program costs for selected student participants, and meals are included. Students traveling to Ann Arbor will receive a travel award to cover travel-related expenses.

How to Apply
Complete an online questionnaire, and upload your resume and unofficial transcript online.

When Are Applications Due?
Applications are currently closed.

For more information or questions, contact Andrej Lenert, assistant professor of chemical engineering, at alenert@umich.edu.

To learn more about the University of Michigan Chemical Engineering graduate program, contact Susan Hamlin at hamlins@umich.edu or (734) 763-1148.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Jan 2019 14:31:19 -0500 2019-04-12T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Chemical Engineering Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Data Collection Methods (June 3, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61255 61255-15061090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 3, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Perry Building
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course reviews a range of survey data collection methods that are both interview-based (face-to-face and telephone) and self-administered (questionnaires that are mailed and online, i.e., web surveys). Mixed mode designs are also covered as well as several hybrid modes for collecting sensitive information e.g., self-administering the sensitive questions in what is otherwise a face-to-face interview. The course also covers newer methods such as mobile web and SMS (text message) interviews, and examines alternative data sources such as social media. It concentrates on the impact these techniques have on the quality of survey data, including error from measurement, nonresponse, and coverage, and assesses the tradeoffs between these error sources when researchers choose a mode or survey design. This is not a how-to-do-it course on survey data collection, but rather focuses on the error properties of key aspects of the data collection process.

Students will view recorded lectures and complete reading assignments in preparation for class discussion sessions which will occur twice per week, one hour per session. Students are expected to attend all discussion sessions either in person or via BlueJeans. Successful discussion sessions will occur through preparation and active participation by all participants enrolled in the course. Students should have questions or discussion topics in mind for the class sessions.

Remote participation option: It is not necessary to be physically in Ann Arbor to take the course. Students who cannot be in Ann Arbor can enroll and join discussion sessions via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/).

Once enrollment is confirmed via email, indicate if course attendance will be in person, in Ann Arbor or via BlueJeans.

Prerequisite: An introductory course in survey research methods or equivalent experience. If joining remotely, participant must have computer, camera and headset available to join the class via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/)
This class meets June 3-July 24 on Monday and Wednesday from 3:00pm-4:00pm

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Class / Instruction Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:48:42 -0500 2019-06-03T15:00:00-04:00 2019-06-03T16:00:00-04:00 Perry Building Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
Introduction to the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) Workshop (June 10, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61353 61353-15090341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 10, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

The Health and Retirement Study (hrsonline.isr.umich.edu) Summer Workshop is intended to give participants an introduction to the study that will enable them to use the data for research. HRS is a large-scale longitudinal study with more than 20 years of data on the labor force participation and health transitions that individuals undergo toward the end of their work lives and in the years that follow. The HRS Summer Workshop features morning lectures on basic survey content, sample design, weighting, and restricted data files. Hands-on data workshops are held every afternoon in which participants learn to work with the data (including the user-friendly RAND version of the HRS data) under the guidance of HRS staff. Staff of the Gateway to Global Aging project (G2Aging.org), which harmonizes data across HRS international sister studies, conduct an afternoon training. At the end of the week, students have the opportunity to present their research ideas to the class and HRS research faculty and obtain feedback. Topics include (but are not limited to) in depth information on HRS data about health insurance and medical care; biomarkers, physical measures, and genetic data; cognition; health and physical functioning; linkage to Medicare; employment, retirement, and pensions and linkage toe Social Security records; psychosocial and well-being; family data; and international comparison data. The data training portion assumes some familiarity with SAS or STATA.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:40:28 -0500 2019-06-10T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-10T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Multi-Item Scale Development and Testing (June 10, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61402 61402-15099298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 10, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Standardized multi-item scales are more common in some disciplines than others. This 2-day course is designed to inspire participants from all disciplines that it is possible to develop your own high quality multi-item scales (or correctly adapt existing multi-item scales) and offers an introduction on how to do this. It covers the psychometric principles of question development while adding in principles of general questionnaire design. Focusing first on Classical Measurement Theory, participants design their own multi-item scales. This is followed by a group discussion of existing multi-item scales. The course then introduces some basic statistical tools for assessing the reliability and dimensionality of multi-item scales and participants get to practice evaluating some existing scales in a computer lab session. The course finishes with an introduction to Item Response Theory.

Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite, but a little knowledge about questionnaire design, multi-item scales and SPSS would be of value.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:11:55 -0500 2019-06-10T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-10T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Data Collection Methods (June 10, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61255 61255-15061091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 10, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Perry Building
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course reviews a range of survey data collection methods that are both interview-based (face-to-face and telephone) and self-administered (questionnaires that are mailed and online, i.e., web surveys). Mixed mode designs are also covered as well as several hybrid modes for collecting sensitive information e.g., self-administering the sensitive questions in what is otherwise a face-to-face interview. The course also covers newer methods such as mobile web and SMS (text message) interviews, and examines alternative data sources such as social media. It concentrates on the impact these techniques have on the quality of survey data, including error from measurement, nonresponse, and coverage, and assesses the tradeoffs between these error sources when researchers choose a mode or survey design. This is not a how-to-do-it course on survey data collection, but rather focuses on the error properties of key aspects of the data collection process.

Students will view recorded lectures and complete reading assignments in preparation for class discussion sessions which will occur twice per week, one hour per session. Students are expected to attend all discussion sessions either in person or via BlueJeans. Successful discussion sessions will occur through preparation and active participation by all participants enrolled in the course. Students should have questions or discussion topics in mind for the class sessions.

Remote participation option: It is not necessary to be physically in Ann Arbor to take the course. Students who cannot be in Ann Arbor can enroll and join discussion sessions via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/).

Once enrollment is confirmed via email, indicate if course attendance will be in person, in Ann Arbor or via BlueJeans.

Prerequisite: An introductory course in survey research methods or equivalent experience. If joining remotely, participant must have computer, camera and headset available to join the class via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/)
This class meets June 3-July 24 on Monday and Wednesday from 3:00pm-4:00pm

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Class / Instruction Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:48:42 -0500 2019-06-10T15:00:00-04:00 2019-06-10T16:00:00-04:00 Perry Building Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
Introduction to the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) Workshop (June 11, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61353 61353-15090342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

The Health and Retirement Study (hrsonline.isr.umich.edu) Summer Workshop is intended to give participants an introduction to the study that will enable them to use the data for research. HRS is a large-scale longitudinal study with more than 20 years of data on the labor force participation and health transitions that individuals undergo toward the end of their work lives and in the years that follow. The HRS Summer Workshop features morning lectures on basic survey content, sample design, weighting, and restricted data files. Hands-on data workshops are held every afternoon in which participants learn to work with the data (including the user-friendly RAND version of the HRS data) under the guidance of HRS staff. Staff of the Gateway to Global Aging project (G2Aging.org), which harmonizes data across HRS international sister studies, conduct an afternoon training. At the end of the week, students have the opportunity to present their research ideas to the class and HRS research faculty and obtain feedback. Topics include (but are not limited to) in depth information on HRS data about health insurance and medical care; biomarkers, physical measures, and genetic data; cognition; health and physical functioning; linkage to Medicare; employment, retirement, and pensions and linkage toe Social Security records; psychosocial and well-being; family data; and international comparison data. The data training portion assumes some familiarity with SAS or STATA.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:40:28 -0500 2019-06-11T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-11T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Multi-Item Scale Development and Testing (June 11, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61402 61402-15099299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Standardized multi-item scales are more common in some disciplines than others. This 2-day course is designed to inspire participants from all disciplines that it is possible to develop your own high quality multi-item scales (or correctly adapt existing multi-item scales) and offers an introduction on how to do this. It covers the psychometric principles of question development while adding in principles of general questionnaire design. Focusing first on Classical Measurement Theory, participants design their own multi-item scales. This is followed by a group discussion of existing multi-item scales. The course then introduces some basic statistical tools for assessing the reliability and dimensionality of multi-item scales and participants get to practice evaluating some existing scales in a computer lab session. The course finishes with an introduction to Item Response Theory.

Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite, but a little knowledge about questionnaire design, multi-item scales and SPSS would be of value.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:11:55 -0500 2019-06-11T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-11T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) Workshop (June 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61353 61353-15090343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

The Health and Retirement Study (hrsonline.isr.umich.edu) Summer Workshop is intended to give participants an introduction to the study that will enable them to use the data for research. HRS is a large-scale longitudinal study with more than 20 years of data on the labor force participation and health transitions that individuals undergo toward the end of their work lives and in the years that follow. The HRS Summer Workshop features morning lectures on basic survey content, sample design, weighting, and restricted data files. Hands-on data workshops are held every afternoon in which participants learn to work with the data (including the user-friendly RAND version of the HRS data) under the guidance of HRS staff. Staff of the Gateway to Global Aging project (G2Aging.org), which harmonizes data across HRS international sister studies, conduct an afternoon training. At the end of the week, students have the opportunity to present their research ideas to the class and HRS research faculty and obtain feedback. Topics include (but are not limited to) in depth information on HRS data about health insurance and medical care; biomarkers, physical measures, and genetic data; cognition; health and physical functioning; linkage to Medicare; employment, retirement, and pensions and linkage toe Social Security records; psychosocial and well-being; family data; and international comparison data. The data training portion assumes some familiarity with SAS or STATA.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:40:28 -0500 2019-06-12T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Multi-Item Scale Development and Testing (June 12, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61402 61402-15099300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Standardized multi-item scales are more common in some disciplines than others. This 2-day course is designed to inspire participants from all disciplines that it is possible to develop your own high quality multi-item scales (or correctly adapt existing multi-item scales) and offers an introduction on how to do this. It covers the psychometric principles of question development while adding in principles of general questionnaire design. Focusing first on Classical Measurement Theory, participants design their own multi-item scales. This is followed by a group discussion of existing multi-item scales. The course then introduces some basic statistical tools for assessing the reliability and dimensionality of multi-item scales and participants get to practice evaluating some existing scales in a computer lab session. The course finishes with an introduction to Item Response Theory.

Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite, but a little knowledge about questionnaire design, multi-item scales and SPSS would be of value.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:11:55 -0500 2019-06-12T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) Workshop (June 13, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61353 61353-15090344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 13, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

The Health and Retirement Study (hrsonline.isr.umich.edu) Summer Workshop is intended to give participants an introduction to the study that will enable them to use the data for research. HRS is a large-scale longitudinal study with more than 20 years of data on the labor force participation and health transitions that individuals undergo toward the end of their work lives and in the years that follow. The HRS Summer Workshop features morning lectures on basic survey content, sample design, weighting, and restricted data files. Hands-on data workshops are held every afternoon in which participants learn to work with the data (including the user-friendly RAND version of the HRS data) under the guidance of HRS staff. Staff of the Gateway to Global Aging project (G2Aging.org), which harmonizes data across HRS international sister studies, conduct an afternoon training. At the end of the week, students have the opportunity to present their research ideas to the class and HRS research faculty and obtain feedback. Topics include (but are not limited to) in depth information on HRS data about health insurance and medical care; biomarkers, physical measures, and genetic data; cognition; health and physical functioning; linkage to Medicare; employment, retirement, and pensions and linkage toe Social Security records; psychosocial and well-being; family data; and international comparison data. The data training portion assumes some familiarity with SAS or STATA.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:40:28 -0500 2019-06-13T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-13T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Multi-Item Scale Development and Testing (June 13, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61402 61402-15099301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 13, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Standardized multi-item scales are more common in some disciplines than others. This 2-day course is designed to inspire participants from all disciplines that it is possible to develop your own high quality multi-item scales (or correctly adapt existing multi-item scales) and offers an introduction on how to do this. It covers the psychometric principles of question development while adding in principles of general questionnaire design. Focusing first on Classical Measurement Theory, participants design their own multi-item scales. This is followed by a group discussion of existing multi-item scales. The course then introduces some basic statistical tools for assessing the reliability and dimensionality of multi-item scales and participants get to practice evaluating some existing scales in a computer lab session. The course finishes with an introduction to Item Response Theory.

Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite, but a little knowledge about questionnaire design, multi-item scales and SPSS would be of value.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:11:55 -0500 2019-06-13T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-13T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) Workshop (June 14, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61353 61353-15090345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 14, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

The Health and Retirement Study (hrsonline.isr.umich.edu) Summer Workshop is intended to give participants an introduction to the study that will enable them to use the data for research. HRS is a large-scale longitudinal study with more than 20 years of data on the labor force participation and health transitions that individuals undergo toward the end of their work lives and in the years that follow. The HRS Summer Workshop features morning lectures on basic survey content, sample design, weighting, and restricted data files. Hands-on data workshops are held every afternoon in which participants learn to work with the data (including the user-friendly RAND version of the HRS data) under the guidance of HRS staff. Staff of the Gateway to Global Aging project (G2Aging.org), which harmonizes data across HRS international sister studies, conduct an afternoon training. At the end of the week, students have the opportunity to present their research ideas to the class and HRS research faculty and obtain feedback. Topics include (but are not limited to) in depth information on HRS data about health insurance and medical care; biomarkers, physical measures, and genetic data; cognition; health and physical functioning; linkage to Medicare; employment, retirement, and pensions and linkage toe Social Security records; psychosocial and well-being; family data; and international comparison data. The data training portion assumes some familiarity with SAS or STATA.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:40:28 -0500 2019-06-14T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-14T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Multi-Item Scale Development and Testing (June 14, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61402 61402-15099302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 14, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Standardized multi-item scales are more common in some disciplines than others. This 2-day course is designed to inspire participants from all disciplines that it is possible to develop your own high quality multi-item scales (or correctly adapt existing multi-item scales) and offers an introduction on how to do this. It covers the psychometric principles of question development while adding in principles of general questionnaire design. Focusing first on Classical Measurement Theory, participants design their own multi-item scales. This is followed by a group discussion of existing multi-item scales. The course then introduces some basic statistical tools for assessing the reliability and dimensionality of multi-item scales and participants get to practice evaluating some existing scales in a computer lab session. The course finishes with an introduction to Item Response Theory.

Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite, but a little knowledge about questionnaire design, multi-item scales and SPSS would be of value.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:11:55 -0500 2019-06-14T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-14T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Basic Concepts and Theoretical Background (one-day workshop) (June 17, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61411 61411-15099319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 17, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

For more information on this program, please visit the RSD Program web site: https://rsdprogram.si.isr.umich.edu/

Not for academic credit workshop (*Remote participation option available)

RSD has financial support available to those who qualify

Responsive survey design (RSD) refers to a method for designing surveys that has been demonstrated to increase the quality and efficiency of survey data collection. RSD uses evidence from early phases of data collection to make design decisions for later phases. Beginning in the 2018 Summer Institute, we will offer a series of eleven one-day short courses in RSD techniques.

*Remote participation option: It is not necessary to be physically in Ann Arbor to participate in these workshops. Students who cannot be in Ann Arbor can enroll and join sessions via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/). Once enrollment is confirmed via email, indicate if course attendance will be in person, in Ann Arbor or via BlueJeans. Survey Methodology for Randomized Controlled Trails does not have the remote participation option.

This course will provide participants with an overview of the primary concepts underlying RSD. This will include discussion of the uncertainty in survey design, the role of paradata, or data describing the data collection process, in informing decisions, and potential RSD interventions. These interventions include timing and sequence of modes, techniques for efficiently deploying incentives, and combining two-phase sampling with other design changes. Interventions appropriate for face-to-face, telephone, web, mail and mixed-mode surveys will be discussed. Using the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework, the main concepts behind these designs will be explained with a focus on how these principles are designed to simultaneously control survey errors and survey costs. Examples of RSD in both large and small studies will be provided as motivation. Small group exercises will help participants to think through some of the common questions that need to be answered when employing RSD.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:51:36 -0400 2019-06-17T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-17T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Basic Concepts and Theoretical Background (one-day workshop) (June 17, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62720 62720-15434148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 17, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course will provide participants with an overview of the primary concepts underlying RSD. This will include discussion of the uncertainty in survey design, the role of paradata, or data describing the data collection process, in informing decisions, and potential RSD interventions. These interventions include timing and sequence of modes, techniques for efficiently deploying incentives, and combining two-phase sampling with other design changes. Interventions appropriate for face-to-face, telephone, web, mail and mixed-mode surveys will be discussed. Using the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework, the main concepts behind these designs will be explained with a focus on how these principles are designed to simultaneously control survey errors and survey costs. Examples of RSD in both large and small studies will be provided as motivation. Small group exercises will help participants to think through some of the common questions that need to be answered when employing RSD

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:20:58 -0400 2019-06-17T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-17T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Applied Questionnaire Design (June 17, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61357 61357-15090353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 17, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course provides students with practice applying principles of question design. Students leave the course with tools to use in diagnosing problems in survey questions and writing their own survey questions. The lecture provides guidelines for writing and revising survey questions and using troubled questions from surveys as examples for revision. Each day's session combines lecture with group discussion and analysis. For some class activities, students work in small groups to apply lecture material to identify problems in the survey questions and propose solutions. Assignments require that students write new questions or revise problematic questions and administer them to fellow students. Sessions consider both questions about events and behaviors and questions about subjective phenomena (such as attitudes, evaluations, and internal states).

20 Ways to Test Your Survey Questions is a course that complements well with this class.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:59:43 -0500 2019-06-17T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Survey Research Techniques (June 17, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61359 61359-15090363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 17, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Surveys continue to play an important role in addressing many kinds of problems about many kinds of populations stand alone or as part of an integrated information system. Application of the scientific principles underlying surveys depends on good understanding of theories and empirical research from disciplines such as psychology, sociology, statistics and computer science. A set of principles and empirical research will be introduced through the Total Surevy Error (TSE) framework. The principles include problem and hypothesis formulation, study design, sampling, questionnaire design, interviewing techniques, pretesting, modes of data collection and data cleaning, management, and analysis. Students will be trained to determine major steps in data collection design and implementation and to refer to literature to justify the steps. The course will also discuss team and project management in the content of survey research, identifying skillsets and technical language required. The course will also provide training in an important subset of skills needed to conduct a survey form beginning to end.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:17:17 -0500 2019-06-17T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-17T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Survey Methodology for Health Science Researchers/Linking Adaptive Interventions and RSD (one-day workshop) (June 17, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61410 61410-15099318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 17, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

For more information on this program, please visit the RSD Program web site: https://rsdprogram.si.isr.umich.edu/

Not for academic credit workshop (*Remote participation option available)

RSD has financial support available to those who qualify

Responsive survey design (RSD) refers to a method for designing surveys that has been demonstrated to increase the quality and efficiency of survey data collection. RSD uses evidence from early phases of data collection to make design decisions for later phases. Beginning in the 2018 Summer Institute, we will offer a series of eleven one-day short courses in RSD techniques.

*Remote participation option: It is not necessary to be physically in Ann Arbor to participate in these workshops. Students who cannot be in Ann Arbor can enroll and join sessions via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/). Once enrollment is confirmed via email, indicate if course attendance will be in person, in Ann Arbor or via BlueJeans. Survey Methodology for Randomized Controlled Trails does not have the remote participation option.

Topics covered: Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are an important tool for tests of internal validity of causal claims in both health and social sciences. In practice, however, inattention to crucial details of data collection methodology can compromise the internal validity test. One crucial example is recruitment and retention of participants – though randomized to treatment, unequal reluctance to participate or unequal attrition from the RCT jeopardize the internal validity of comparisons within the RCT design. Another crucial example is the interaction of treatment and measurement – if the measures themselves change in response to the RCT treatment, then observed treatment and control differences may reflect these measurement differences rather than treatment differences. In both cases, specific tools from survey methodology can be used to maximize the internal validity test in the RCT design. This course will focus on the survey methodology topics most important for maintaining the internal validity of RCT studies and feature specific examples of applications to RCTs. One set of tools will focus on maximizing participation and minimizing attrition of participants. Core survey methodology tools for encouraging participation in both pre-treatment measurement and the treatment itself as well as tools for minimizing the loss of participants to follow-up measures will be featured. These tools include incentives, tailoring refusal conversion, switching modes, and tracking strategies. Links to RSD will also be made. A second set of tools will focus on measurement construction to reduce chances of interaction with treatment. These tools include mode options, questionnaire design issues, and special instruments (such as life history calendars) to minimize reporting error. Each portion of the course will feature examples applying each specific tool to RCT studies.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:50:39 -0400 2019-06-17T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-17T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Survey Methodology for Health Science Researchers/Linking Adaptive Interventions and RSD (one-day workshop) (June 17, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62718 62718-15434143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 17, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Topics covered: Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are an important tool for tests of internal validity of causal claims in both health and social sciences. In practice, however, inattention to crucial details of data collection methodology can compromise the internal validity test. One crucial example is recruitment and retention of participants – though randomized to treatment, unequal reluctance to participate or unequal attrition from the RCT jeopardize the internal validity of comparisons within the RCT design. Another crucial example is the interaction of treatment and measurement – if the measures themselves change in response to the RCT treatment, then observed treatment and control differences may reflect these measurement differences rather than treatment differences. In both cases, specific tools from survey methodology can be used to maximize the internal validity test in the RCT design. This course will focus on the survey methodology topics most important for maintaining the internal validity of RCT studies and feature specific examples of applications to RCTs. One set of tools will focus on maximizing participation and minimizing attrition of participants. Core survey methodology tools for encouraging participation in both pre-treatment measurement and the treatment itself as well as tools for minimizing the loss of participants to follow-up measures will be featured. These tools include incentives, tailoring refusal conversion, switching modes, and tracking strategies. Links to RSD will also be made. A second set of tools will focus on measurement construction to reduce chances of interaction with treatment. These tools include mode options, questionnaire design issues, and special instruments (such as life history calendars) to minimize reporting error. Each portion of the course will feature examples applying each specific tool to RCT studies.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:12:20 -0400 2019-06-17T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-17T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
20 Ways to Test Your Survey Questions (June 17, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61430 61430-15099343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 17, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Testing your survey questionnaire is absolutely essential for ensuring a high quality survey. There has been a proliferation of question testing methods (both new methods and variations of existing methods). This course covers 20 different question testing techniques and combines information from the survey methodological literature with practical advice and hands on practice. The course covers methods for testing quantitative interview-based, web and mail questionnaires looking both at standard methods as well as new and unusual techniques. Overall the course covers: standard field test, interviewer rating form and variations, behaviour coding (classical, sequence-based and shortened), expert review, systematic form appraisal (including two online programmes), respondent debriefing (including vignettes and web probing), cognitive interviewing (short introduction), focus groups, split ballot tests, usability testing, studying item nonresponse and response distribution patterns, reliability and validity, record check studies, paradata, an introduction to analysis based methods (latent class, multi-trait-multi-method procedure and item response theory), eye tracking, computational linguistics, and crowd sourcing).

Introduction to Applied Questionnaire Design is a course that complements well with this class.

Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite, but some knowledge of questionnaire design is of value.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:49:00 -0500 2019-06-17T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-17T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
Data Collection Methods (June 17, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61255 61255-15061092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 17, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Perry Building
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course reviews a range of survey data collection methods that are both interview-based (face-to-face and telephone) and self-administered (questionnaires that are mailed and online, i.e., web surveys). Mixed mode designs are also covered as well as several hybrid modes for collecting sensitive information e.g., self-administering the sensitive questions in what is otherwise a face-to-face interview. The course also covers newer methods such as mobile web and SMS (text message) interviews, and examines alternative data sources such as social media. It concentrates on the impact these techniques have on the quality of survey data, including error from measurement, nonresponse, and coverage, and assesses the tradeoffs between these error sources when researchers choose a mode or survey design. This is not a how-to-do-it course on survey data collection, but rather focuses on the error properties of key aspects of the data collection process.

Students will view recorded lectures and complete reading assignments in preparation for class discussion sessions which will occur twice per week, one hour per session. Students are expected to attend all discussion sessions either in person or via BlueJeans. Successful discussion sessions will occur through preparation and active participation by all participants enrolled in the course. Students should have questions or discussion topics in mind for the class sessions.

Remote participation option: It is not necessary to be physically in Ann Arbor to take the course. Students who cannot be in Ann Arbor can enroll and join discussion sessions via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/).

Once enrollment is confirmed via email, indicate if course attendance will be in person, in Ann Arbor or via BlueJeans.

Prerequisite: An introductory course in survey research methods or equivalent experience. If joining remotely, participant must have computer, camera and headset available to join the class via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/)
This class meets June 3-July 24 on Monday and Wednesday from 3:00pm-4:00pm

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Class / Instruction Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:48:42 -0500 2019-06-17T15:00:00-04:00 2019-06-17T16:00:00-04:00 Perry Building Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
Basic Concepts and Theoretical Background (one-day workshop) (June 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62723 62723-15434151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course will provide participants with an overview of the primary concepts underlying RSD. This will include discussion of the uncertainty in survey design, the role of paradata, or data describing the data collection process, in informing decisions, and potential RSD interventions. These interventions include timing and sequence of modes, techniques for efficiently deploying incentives, and combining two-phase sampling with other design changes. Interventions appropriate for face-to-face, telephone, web, mail and mixed-mode surveys will be discussed. Using the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework, the main concepts behind these designs will be explained with a focus on how these principles are designed to simultaneously control survey errors and survey costs. Examples of RSD in both large and small studies will be provided as motivation. Small group exercises will help participants to think through some of the common questions that need to be answered when employing RSD

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:52:34 -0400 2019-06-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-18T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Case Studies in Responsive Design Research (one-day workshop) (June 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61419 61419-15099331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

For more information on this program, please visit the RSD Program web site: https://rsdprogram.si.isr.umich.edu/

Not for academic credit workshop (*Remote participation option available)

RSD has financial support available to those who qualify

Responsive survey design (RSD) refers to a method for designing surveys that has been demonstrated to increase the quality and efficiency of survey data collection. RSD uses evidence from early phases of data collection to make design decisions for later phases. Beginning in the 2018 Summer Institute, we will offer a series of eleven one-day short courses in RSD techniques.

*Remote participation option: It is not necessary to be physically in Ann Arbor to participate in these workshops. Students who cannot be in Ann Arbor can enroll and join sessions via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/). Once enrollment is confirmed via email, indicate if course attendance will be in person, in Ann Arbor or via BlueJeans. Survey Methodology for Randomized Controlled Trails does not have the remote participation option.

This course will explore several well-developed examples of RSD. Dr. West will serve as a moderator of the course, and also introduce a case study from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). The instructors will then provide independent examples of the implementation of RSD in different international surveys. All case studies will be supplemented with discussions of issues regarding the development and implementation of RSD. Case studies will include the NSFG, the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life (RDSL) survey, the University of Michigan Campus Climate (UMCC) Survey, and the Netherlands Survey of Consumer Satisfaction, among others. This variety of case studies will reflect a diversity of survey conditions. The NSFG (West) is a cross-sectional survey that is run on a continuous basis with in-person interviewing. The RDSL (Axinn) is a panel survey that employed a mixed-mode approach to collecting weekly journal data from a panel of young women. The UMCC survey is a web survey of students at UM that employed multiple modes of contact across the phases of the design. The Netherlands Survey of Consumer Satisfaction (Schouten) is a mixed-mode survey combining web and mail survey data collection with telephone interviewing. The focus of the course will be on practical tools for implementing RSD in a variety of conditions, including small-scale surveys.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:53:03 -0400 2019-06-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Case Studies in Responsive Design Research (one-day workshop) (June 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62721 62721-15434149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course will explore several well-developed examples of RSD. Dr. West will serve as a moderator of the course, and also introduce a case study from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). The instructors will then provide independent examples of the implementation of RSD in different international surveys. All case studies will be supplemented with discussions of issues regarding the development and implementation of RSD. Case studies will include the NSFG, the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life (RDSL) survey, the University of Michigan Campus Climate (UMCC) Survey, and the Netherlands Survey of Consumer Satisfaction, among others. This variety of case studies will reflect a diversity of survey conditions. The NSFG (West) is a cross-sectional survey that is run on a continuous basis with in-person interviewing. The RDSL (Axinn) is a panel survey that employed a mixed-mode approach to collecting weekly journal data from a panel of young women. The UMCC survey is a web survey of students at UM that employed multiple modes of contact across the phases of the design. The Netherlands Survey of Consumer Satisfaction (Schouten) is a mixed-mode survey combining web and mail survey data collection with telephone interviewing. The focus of the course will be on practical tools for implementing RSD in a variety of conditions, including small-scale surveys.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:52:09 -0400 2019-06-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-18T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Applied Questionnaire Design (June 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61357 61357-15090354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course provides students with practice applying principles of question design. Students leave the course with tools to use in diagnosing problems in survey questions and writing their own survey questions. The lecture provides guidelines for writing and revising survey questions and using troubled questions from surveys as examples for revision. Each day's session combines lecture with group discussion and analysis. For some class activities, students work in small groups to apply lecture material to identify problems in the survey questions and propose solutions. Assignments require that students write new questions or revise problematic questions and administer them to fellow students. Sessions consider both questions about events and behaviors and questions about subjective phenomena (such as attitudes, evaluations, and internal states).

20 Ways to Test Your Survey Questions is a course that complements well with this class.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:59:43 -0500 2019-06-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-18T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Survey Research Techniques (June 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61359 61359-15090364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Surveys continue to play an important role in addressing many kinds of problems about many kinds of populations stand alone or as part of an integrated information system. Application of the scientific principles underlying surveys depends on good understanding of theories and empirical research from disciplines such as psychology, sociology, statistics and computer science. A set of principles and empirical research will be introduced through the Total Surevy Error (TSE) framework. The principles include problem and hypothesis formulation, study design, sampling, questionnaire design, interviewing techniques, pretesting, modes of data collection and data cleaning, management, and analysis. Students will be trained to determine major steps in data collection design and implementation and to refer to literature to justify the steps. The course will also discuss team and project management in the content of survey research, identifying skillsets and technical language required. The course will also provide training in an important subset of skills needed to conduct a survey form beginning to end.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:17:17 -0500 2019-06-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-18T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
20 Ways to Test Your Survey Questions (June 18, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61430 61430-15099344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Testing your survey questionnaire is absolutely essential for ensuring a high quality survey. There has been a proliferation of question testing methods (both new methods and variations of existing methods). This course covers 20 different question testing techniques and combines information from the survey methodological literature with practical advice and hands on practice. The course covers methods for testing quantitative interview-based, web and mail questionnaires looking both at standard methods as well as new and unusual techniques. Overall the course covers: standard field test, interviewer rating form and variations, behaviour coding (classical, sequence-based and shortened), expert review, systematic form appraisal (including two online programmes), respondent debriefing (including vignettes and web probing), cognitive interviewing (short introduction), focus groups, split ballot tests, usability testing, studying item nonresponse and response distribution patterns, reliability and validity, record check studies, paradata, an introduction to analysis based methods (latent class, multi-trait-multi-method procedure and item response theory), eye tracking, computational linguistics, and crowd sourcing).

Introduction to Applied Questionnaire Design is a course that complements well with this class.

Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite, but some knowledge of questionnaire design is of value.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:49:00 -0500 2019-06-18T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-18T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
A Management Model for Responsive Survey Design (one-day workshop) (June 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61425 61425-15099338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

For more information on this program, please visit the RSD Program web site: https://rsdprogram.si.isr.umich.edu/

Not for academic credit workshop (*Remote participation option available)

RSD has financial support available to those who qualify

Responsive survey design (RSD) refers to a method for designing surveys that has been demonstrated to increase the quality and efficiency of survey data collection. RSD uses evidence from early phases of data collection to make design decisions for later phases. Beginning in the 2018 Summer Institute, we will offer a series of eleven one-day short courses in RSD techniques.

*Remote participation option: It is not necessary to be physically in Ann Arbor to participate in these workshops. Students who cannot be in Ann Arbor can enroll and join sessions via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/). Once enrollment is confirmed via email, indicate if course attendance will be in person, in Ann Arbor or via BlueJeans. Survey Methodology for Randomized Controlled Trails does not have the remote participation option.

This course will cover issues associated with implementation of RSD to manage field work. Instructors will provide concrete instruction on active monitoring of key indicators across a variety of environments – small-scale surveys, large-scale surveys, and web, telephone, face-to-face and mixed-mode surveys. Methods for implementing RSD interventions in a diversity of production environments will be discussed. RSD will be presented within the framework of the principles of project management, with a particular focus on risk management. A checklist of steps for implementing RSD will be discussed in detail. This course will draw upon a semester-long graduate course in survey management, which includes sections on RSD.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:57:20 -0500 2019-06-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
A Management Model for Responsive Survey Design (one-day workshop) (June 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62761 62761-15460079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course will cover issues associated with implementation of RSD to manage field work. Instructors will provide concrete instruction on active monitoring of key indicators across a variety of environments – small-scale surveys, large-scale surveys, and web, telephone, face-to-face and mixed-mode surveys. Methods for implementing RSD interventions in a diversity of production environments will be discussed. RSD will be presented within the framework of the principles of project management, with a particular focus on risk management. A checklist of steps for implementing RSD will be discussed in detail. This course will draw upon a semester-long graduate course in survey management, which includes sections on RSD.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:55:39 -0400 2019-06-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Alternative Indicators Designed to Maximize Data Quality (one-day workshop) (June 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62759 62759-15460077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Topics covered: The response rate has been shown to be a poor indicator for data quality with respect to nonresponse bias. Several alternatives have been proposed – the fraction of missing information (FMI), R-Indicators, subgroup response rates, etc. This course will explore the use of these indicators as guides for data collection when working within an RSD framework. We also explore optimization techniques that may be useful when designing a survey to maximize these alternative indicators. The consequences of optimizing a survey to other indicators will be explored. We will also consider how the response rate fits into this approach. We will end with a brief discussion of methods for post data collection evaluation of data quality.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:55:08 -0400 2019-06-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Applied Questionnaire Design (June 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61357 61357-15090355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course provides students with practice applying principles of question design. Students leave the course with tools to use in diagnosing problems in survey questions and writing their own survey questions. The lecture provides guidelines for writing and revising survey questions and using troubled questions from surveys as examples for revision. Each day's session combines lecture with group discussion and analysis. For some class activities, students work in small groups to apply lecture material to identify problems in the survey questions and propose solutions. Assignments require that students write new questions or revise problematic questions and administer them to fellow students. Sessions consider both questions about events and behaviors and questions about subjective phenomena (such as attitudes, evaluations, and internal states).

20 Ways to Test Your Survey Questions is a course that complements well with this class.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:59:43 -0500 2019-06-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Survey Research Techniques (June 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61359 61359-15090365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Surveys continue to play an important role in addressing many kinds of problems about many kinds of populations stand alone or as part of an integrated information system. Application of the scientific principles underlying surveys depends on good understanding of theories and empirical research from disciplines such as psychology, sociology, statistics and computer science. A set of principles and empirical research will be introduced through the Total Surevy Error (TSE) framework. The principles include problem and hypothesis formulation, study design, sampling, questionnaire design, interviewing techniques, pretesting, modes of data collection and data cleaning, management, and analysis. Students will be trained to determine major steps in data collection design and implementation and to refer to literature to justify the steps. The course will also discuss team and project management in the content of survey research, identifying skillsets and technical language required. The course will also provide training in an important subset of skills needed to conduct a survey form beginning to end.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:17:17 -0500 2019-06-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Responsive Survey Design for Web Surveys (one-day workshop) (June 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61420 61420-15099332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

For more information on this program, please visit the RSD Program web site: https://rsdprogram.si.isr.umich.edu/

Not for academic credit workshop (*Remote participation option available)

RSD has financial support available to those who qualify

Responsive survey design (RSD) refers to a method for designing surveys that has been demonstrated to increase the quality and efficiency of survey data collection. RSD uses evidence from early phases of data collection to make design decisions for later phases. Beginning in the 2018 Summer Institute, we will offer a series of eleven one-day short courses in RSD techniques.

*Remote participation option: It is not necessary to be physically in Ann Arbor to participate in these workshops. Students who cannot be in Ann Arbor can enroll and join sessions via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/). Once enrollment is confirmed via email, indicate if course attendance will be in person, in Ann Arbor or via BlueJeans. Survey Methodology for Randomized Controlled Trails does not have the remote participation option.


Topics covered: Web surveys can be an inexpensive method for collecting data. This is especially true for designs that repeat measurement over several time periods. However, these relatively low-cost data collections may result in reduced data quality if the problem of nonresponse is ignored. This course will examine methods for using RSD to effectively deploy scarce resources in order to minimize the risk of nonresponse bias. Recent experience with the University of Michigan Campus Climate Survey and the National Survey of College Graduates is used to illustrate this point. These surveys are defined by phased designs and multiple modes of contact. This approach produced relatively high response rates and used alternative contact methods in later phases to recruit sample members from subgroups that were less likely to respond in earlier phases. In the case of the UM-CCS all of this was accomplished on a very small budget and with a small management team. Lessons from these experiences can be directly applied in many similar settings.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:53:34 -0400 2019-06-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Responsive Survey Design for Web Surveys (one-day workshop) (June 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62722 62722-15434150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Topics covered: Web surveys can be an inexpensive method for collecting data. This is especially true for designs that repeat measurement over several time periods. However, these relatively low-cost data collections may result in reduced data quality if the problem of nonresponse is ignored. This course will examine methods for using RSD to effectively deploy scarce resources in order to minimize the risk of nonresponse bias. Recent experience with the University of Michigan Campus Climate Survey and the National Survey of College Graduates is used to illustrate this point. These surveys are defined by phased designs and multiple modes of contact. This approach produced relatively high response rates and used alternative contact methods in later phases to recruit sample members from subgroups that were less likely to respond in earlier phases. In the case of the UM-CCS all of this was accomplished on a very small budget and with a small management team. Lessons from these experiences can be directly applied in many similar settings.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:34:10 -0400 2019-06-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Using SMART Design in Responsive Survey Design (one-day workshop) (June 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61426 61426-15099339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

For more information on this program, please visit the RSD Program web site: https://rsdprogram.si.isr.umich.edu/

Not for academic credit workshop (*Remote participation option available)

RSD has financial support available to those who qualify

Responsive survey design (RSD) refers to a method for designing surveys that has been demonstrated to increase the quality and efficiency of survey data collection. RSD uses evidence from early phases of data collection to make design decisions for later phases. Beginning in the 2018 Summer Institute, we will offer a series of eleven one-day short courses in RSD techniques.

*Remote participation option: It is not necessary to be physically in Ann Arbor to participate in these workshops. Students who cannot be in Ann Arbor can enroll and join sessions via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/). Once enrollment is confirmed via email, indicate if course attendance will be in person, in Ann Arbor or via BlueJeans. Survey Methodology for Randomized Controlled Trails does not have the remote participation option.


Topics covered: The effective treatment and management of a wide variety of health disorders often requires individualized, sequential decision making whereby treatment is adapted over time based on the changing disease state or specific circumstances of the patient. Adaptive interventions (also known as dynamic treatment regimens) operationalize this type of individualized treatment decision making using a sequence of decision rules that specify whether, how, for whom, or when to alter the intensity, type, or delivery of pharmacological, behavioral, and/or psychosocial treatments. There has been a huge surge of scientific interest in constructing adaptive interventions via the sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) design. SMART is a type of multi-stage randomized trial design, developed specifically for the purpose of collecting high-quality data for building optimal adaptive interventions. SMARTs are still new to the great majority of behavioral and social science investigators. In this course, we will introduce adaptive interventions, SMART (including simple design principle, cutting-edge analytic methods (e.g., Q-Learning) for SMART data, and discuss how these ideas can guide responsive and adaptive survey designs.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:02:59 -0500 2019-06-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Using SMART Design in Responsive Survey Design (one-day workshop) (June 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62762 62762-15460080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Topics covered: The effective treatment and management of a wide variety of health disorders often requires individualized, sequential decision making whereby treatment is adapted over time based on the changing disease state or specific circumstances of the patient. Adaptive interventions (also known as dynamic treatment regimens) operationalize this type of individualized treatment decision making using a sequence of decision rules that specify whether, how, for whom, or when to alter the intensity, type, or delivery of pharmacological, behavioral, and/or psychosocial treatments. There has been a huge surge of scientific interest in constructing adaptive interventions via the sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) design. SMART is a type of multi-stage randomized trial design, developed specifically for the purpose of collecting high-quality data for building optimal adaptive interventions. SMARTs are still new to the great majority of behavioral and social science investigators. In this course, we will introduce adaptive interventions, SMART (including simple design principle, cutting-edge analytic methods (e.g., Q-Learning) for SMART data, and discuss how these ideas can guide responsive and adaptive survey designs.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:56:05 -0400 2019-06-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
20 Ways to Test Your Survey Questions (June 19, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61430 61430-15099345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Testing your survey questionnaire is absolutely essential for ensuring a high quality survey. There has been a proliferation of question testing methods (both new methods and variations of existing methods). This course covers 20 different question testing techniques and combines information from the survey methodological literature with practical advice and hands on practice. The course covers methods for testing quantitative interview-based, web and mail questionnaires looking both at standard methods as well as new and unusual techniques. Overall the course covers: standard field test, interviewer rating form and variations, behaviour coding (classical, sequence-based and shortened), expert review, systematic form appraisal (including two online programmes), respondent debriefing (including vignettes and web probing), cognitive interviewing (short introduction), focus groups, split ballot tests, usability testing, studying item nonresponse and response distribution patterns, reliability and validity, record check studies, paradata, an introduction to analysis based methods (latent class, multi-trait-multi-method procedure and item response theory), eye tracking, computational linguistics, and crowd sourcing).

Introduction to Applied Questionnaire Design is a course that complements well with this class.

Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite, but some knowledge of questionnaire design is of value.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:49:00 -0500 2019-06-19T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
Data Visualization for Active Monitoring (one-day workshop) (June 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61421 61421-15099333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

For more information on this program, please visit the RSD Program web site: https://rsdprogram.si.isr.umich.edu/

Not for academic credit workshop (*Remote participation option available)

RSD has financial support available to those who qualify

Responsive survey design (RSD) refers to a method for designing surveys that has been demonstrated to increase the quality and efficiency of survey data collection. RSD uses evidence from early phases of data collection to make design decisions for later phases. Beginning in the 2018 Summer Institute, we will offer a series of eleven one-day short courses in RSD techniques.

*Remote participation option: It is not necessary to be physically in Ann Arbor to participate in these workshops. Students who cannot be in Ann Arbor can enroll and join sessions via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/). Once enrollment is confirmed via email, indicate if course attendance will be in person, in Ann Arbor or via BlueJeans. Survey Methodology for Randomized Controlled Trails does not have the remote participation option.


Topics covered: This course will cover basic concepts for the design and use of “dashboards” for monitoring survey data collection. We will begin with a detailed discussion of how to design dashboards from an RSD perspective. This will include concrete discussions of how relevant data may be collected and summarized across a variety of production environments. We will also discuss how these dashboards can be used to implement RSD interventions on an ongoing basis. We will demonstrate these points using examples from actual dashboards. We will briefly explore methods for modeling incoming paradata in order to detect outliers. On the second day, we will consider practical issues associated with the development of dashboards, including software alternatives. Finally, we will demonstrate how to update dashboards using data reflecting the results of ongoing fieldwork. Students will be provided with template spreadsheet dashboards as discussed earlier.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:31:32 -0500 2019-06-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Data Visualization for Active Monitoring (one-day workshop) (June 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62754 62754-15460050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Topics covered: This course will cover basic concepts for the design and use of “dashboards” for monitoring survey data collection. We will begin with a detailed discussion of how to design dashboards from an RSD perspective. This will include concrete discussions of how relevant data may be collected and summarized across a variety of production environments. We will also discuss how these dashboards can be used to implement RSD interventions on an ongoing basis. We will demonstrate these points using examples from actual dashboards. We will briefly explore methods for modeling incoming paradata in order to detect outliers. On the second day, we will consider practical issues associated with the development of dashboards, including software alternatives. Finally, we will demonstrate how to update dashboards using data reflecting the results of ongoing fieldwork. Students will be provided with template spreadsheet dashboards as discussed earlier.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:54:28 -0400 2019-06-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-20T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Implementation of Responsive Survey Design in Federal Statistical Systems (one-day workshop) (June 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61429 61429-15099342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

For more information on this program, please visit the RSD Program web site: https://rsdprogram.si.isr.umich.edu/

Not for academic credit workshop (*Remote participation option available)

RSD has financial support available to those who qualify

Responsive survey design (RSD) refers to a method for designing surveys that has been demonstrated to increase the quality and efficiency of survey data collection. RSD uses evidence from early phases of data collection to make design decisions for later phases. Beginning in the 2018 Summer Institute, we will offer a series of eleven one-day short courses in RSD techniques.

*Remote participation option: It is not necessary to be physically in Ann Arbor to participate in these workshops. Students who cannot be in Ann Arbor can enroll and join sessions via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/). Once enrollment is confirmed via email, indicate if course attendance will be in person, in Ann Arbor or via BlueJeans. Survey Methodology for Randomized Controlled Trails does not have the remote participation option.


Topics covered: This course will provide an overview of challenges and successes experienced in the development of adaptive survey design at the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Agricultural Statistics Service, including illustrations from the National Survey of College Graduates, the National Health Interview Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The presentation will include a brief history of the evolution of adaptive design capabilities at these agencies. We also discuss the development of a protocol for adaptive survey design that guides implementation and transparent documentation. The case studies covered will show applications of AD in surveys with different designs (cross-section vs. longitudinal, single vs. multi-mode) and different cost/quality objectives. We discuss successes and failures in these applications and factors that will shape future uses of adaptive design.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:16:30 -0500 2019-06-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-20T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Implementation of Responsive Survey Design in Federal Statistical Systems (one-day workshop) (June 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62765 62765-15460098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Topics covered: This course will provide an overview of challenges and successes experienced in the development of adaptive survey design at the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Agricultural Statistics Service, including illustrations from the National Survey of College Graduates, the National Health Interview Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The presentation will include a brief history of the evolution of adaptive design capabilities at these agencies. We also discuss the development of a protocol for adaptive survey design that guides implementation and transparent documentation. The case studies covered will show applications of AD in surveys with different designs (cross-section vs. longitudinal, single vs. multi-mode) and different cost/quality objectives. We discuss successes and failures in these applications and factors that will shape future uses of adaptive design.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:57:40 -0400 2019-06-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-20T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Applied Questionnaire Design (June 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61357 61357-15090356@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course provides students with practice applying principles of question design. Students leave the course with tools to use in diagnosing problems in survey questions and writing their own survey questions. The lecture provides guidelines for writing and revising survey questions and using troubled questions from surveys as examples for revision. Each day's session combines lecture with group discussion and analysis. For some class activities, students work in small groups to apply lecture material to identify problems in the survey questions and propose solutions. Assignments require that students write new questions or revise problematic questions and administer them to fellow students. Sessions consider both questions about events and behaviors and questions about subjective phenomena (such as attitudes, evaluations, and internal states).

20 Ways to Test Your Survey Questions is a course that complements well with this class.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:59:43 -0500 2019-06-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Survey Research Techniques (June 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61359 61359-15090366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Surveys continue to play an important role in addressing many kinds of problems about many kinds of populations stand alone or as part of an integrated information system. Application of the scientific principles underlying surveys depends on good understanding of theories and empirical research from disciplines such as psychology, sociology, statistics and computer science. A set of principles and empirical research will be introduced through the Total Surevy Error (TSE) framework. The principles include problem and hypothesis formulation, study design, sampling, questionnaire design, interviewing techniques, pretesting, modes of data collection and data cleaning, management, and analysis. Students will be trained to determine major steps in data collection design and implementation and to refer to literature to justify the steps. The course will also discuss team and project management in the content of survey research, identifying skillsets and technical language required. The course will also provide training in an important subset of skills needed to conduct a survey form beginning to end.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:17:17 -0500 2019-06-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-20T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
20 Ways to Test Your Survey Questions (June 20, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61430 61430-15099346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 20, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Testing your survey questionnaire is absolutely essential for ensuring a high quality survey. There has been a proliferation of question testing methods (both new methods and variations of existing methods). This course covers 20 different question testing techniques and combines information from the survey methodological literature with practical advice and hands on practice. The course covers methods for testing quantitative interview-based, web and mail questionnaires looking both at standard methods as well as new and unusual techniques. Overall the course covers: standard field test, interviewer rating form and variations, behaviour coding (classical, sequence-based and shortened), expert review, systematic form appraisal (including two online programmes), respondent debriefing (including vignettes and web probing), cognitive interviewing (short introduction), focus groups, split ballot tests, usability testing, studying item nonresponse and response distribution patterns, reliability and validity, record check studies, paradata, an introduction to analysis based methods (latent class, multi-trait-multi-method procedure and item response theory), eye tracking, computational linguistics, and crowd sourcing).

Introduction to Applied Questionnaire Design is a course that complements well with this class.

Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite, but some knowledge of questionnaire design is of value.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:49:00 -0500 2019-06-20T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-20T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
Implementing, Managing, and Analyzing Interventions in a Responsive Survey Design Framework (one-day workshop) (June 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61428 61428-15099341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

For more information on this program, please visit the RSD Program web site: https://rsdprogram.si.isr.umich.edu/

Not for academic credit workshop (*Remote participation option available)

RSD has financial support available to those who qualify

Responsive survey design (RSD) refers to a method for designing surveys that has been demonstrated to increase the quality and efficiency of survey data collection. RSD uses evidence from early phases of data collection to make design decisions for later phases. Beginning in the 2018 Summer Institute, we will offer a series of eleven one-day short courses in RSD techniques.

*Remote participation option: It is not necessary to be physically in Ann Arbor to participate in these workshops. Students who cannot be in Ann Arbor can enroll and join sessions via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/). Once enrollment is confirmed via email, indicate if course attendance will be in person, in Ann Arbor or via BlueJeans. Survey Methodology for Randomized Controlled Trails does not have the remote participation option.

Topics covered: This course will discuss a variety of potential RSD interventions. Many of these have been implemented experimentally, and the course will include evaluations of those experiments. The importance of experimental evaluations in early phases of RSD will be discussed. Methods for implementing interventions will also be discussed, including implementation of experiments aimed at evaluating new interventions. Strategies for implementing these interventions with both interviewer-mediated and self-administered (e.g., web and mail) surveys will be discussed. Methods for the evaluation of the results of the interventions (experimental and otherwise) will be considered. These evaluations will include measures of both costs and errors.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:11:31 -0500 2019-06-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-21T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Implementing, Managing, and Analyzing Interventions in a Responsive Survey Design Framework (one-day workshop) (June 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62763 62763-15460093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Topics covered: This course will discuss a variety of potential RSD interventions. Many of these have been implemented experimentally, and the course will include evaluations of those experiments. The importance of experimental evaluations in early phases of RSD will be discussed. Methods for implementing interventions will also be discussed, including implementation of experiments aimed at evaluating new interventions. Strategies for implementing these interventions with both interviewer-mediated and self-administered (e.g., web and mail) surveys will be discussed. Methods for the evaluation of the results of the interventions (experimental and otherwise) will be considered. These evaluations will include measures of both costs and errors.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:56:28 -0400 2019-06-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-21T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Applied Questionnaire Design (June 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61357 61357-15090357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course provides students with practice applying principles of question design. Students leave the course with tools to use in diagnosing problems in survey questions and writing their own survey questions. The lecture provides guidelines for writing and revising survey questions and using troubled questions from surveys as examples for revision. Each day's session combines lecture with group discussion and analysis. For some class activities, students work in small groups to apply lecture material to identify problems in the survey questions and propose solutions. Assignments require that students write new questions or revise problematic questions and administer them to fellow students. Sessions consider both questions about events and behaviors and questions about subjective phenomena (such as attitudes, evaluations, and internal states).

20 Ways to Test Your Survey Questions is a course that complements well with this class.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:59:43 -0500 2019-06-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-21T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Survey Research Techniques (June 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61359 61359-15090367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Surveys continue to play an important role in addressing many kinds of problems about many kinds of populations stand alone or as part of an integrated information system. Application of the scientific principles underlying surveys depends on good understanding of theories and empirical research from disciplines such as psychology, sociology, statistics and computer science. A set of principles and empirical research will be introduced through the Total Surevy Error (TSE) framework. The principles include problem and hypothesis formulation, study design, sampling, questionnaire design, interviewing techniques, pretesting, modes of data collection and data cleaning, management, and analysis. Students will be trained to determine major steps in data collection design and implementation and to refer to literature to justify the steps. The course will also discuss team and project management in the content of survey research, identifying skillsets and technical language required. The course will also provide training in an important subset of skills needed to conduct a survey form beginning to end.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:17:17 -0500 2019-06-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-21T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
20 Ways to Test Your Survey Questions (June 21, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61430 61430-15099347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 21, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Testing your survey questionnaire is absolutely essential for ensuring a high quality survey. There has been a proliferation of question testing methods (both new methods and variations of existing methods). This course covers 20 different question testing techniques and combines information from the survey methodological literature with practical advice and hands on practice. The course covers methods for testing quantitative interview-based, web and mail questionnaires looking both at standard methods as well as new and unusual techniques. Overall the course covers: standard field test, interviewer rating form and variations, behaviour coding (classical, sequence-based and shortened), expert review, systematic form appraisal (including two online programmes), respondent debriefing (including vignettes and web probing), cognitive interviewing (short introduction), focus groups, split ballot tests, usability testing, studying item nonresponse and response distribution patterns, reliability and validity, record check studies, paradata, an introduction to analysis based methods (latent class, multi-trait-multi-method procedure and item response theory), eye tracking, computational linguistics, and crowd sourcing).

Introduction to Applied Questionnaire Design is a course that complements well with this class.

Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite, but some knowledge of questionnaire design is of value.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:49:00 -0500 2019-06-21T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-21T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction