Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Language Fair (February 22, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60997 60997-15000025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 10:30am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Are you interested in learning more about the Asian languages taught at the University of Michigan? The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures invites you to the Asian Languages Fair, featuring guests from the Chinese Language Program, Japanese Language Program, Korean Language Program, South Asian Language Program, and Southeast Asian Language Program.

You are invited to come learn about opportunities at UM to study the following languages: Bengali, Chinese, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Thai, Tibetan, Urdu, and Vietnamese. There will also be opportunities to win raffle prizes.

The Asian Languages Fair will be held in the Shapiro Lobby from 10:30am-1:30pm on Friday, February 22. We hope to see you there!

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Fair / Festival Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:30:24 -0500 2019-02-22T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-22T13:30:00-05:00 Shapiro Library Asian Languages and Cultures Fair / Festival red and brown tower
History Department Course Fair (March 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61914 61914-15239139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Grab a snack, meet professors, and learn about fall 2019 History classes! Flyers for 60+ history courses will be available. Faculty and History students will be on hand to answer questions and recommend courses.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 07 Mar 2019 09:11:09 -0500 2019-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of History Social / Informal Gathering Course Fair Flyer
Pizza with Profs (March 27, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62525 62525-15397103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Come meet our English professors and learn more about Fall 2019 undergraduate English classes.
Speed panel format with Q & A session.
Cottage Inn pizza provided!

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Other Mon, 25 Mar 2019 09:27:08 -0400 2019-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Other 2019 pizza w profs
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
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
Virtual Summer Information Session (June 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63800 63800-15881957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

For new LSA students (first-time, first-year, and transfer) who have attended orientation and have not started classes, the LSA Opportunity Hub is offering virtual sessions to share information about the Hub.
Presenters will introduce the Hub and our services, explain why students should connect with us, and talk about what happens when they visit. We'll also answer questions and provide next step suggestions and options for students who are eager to advance their career exploration and development.

To register, students should contact the Hub at 734-763-4674 or lsa-opphub@umich.edu.

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 28 May 2019 16:14:02 -0400 2019-06-13T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-13T13:00:00-04:00 LSA Opportunity Hub Careers / Jobs Hub Logo
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
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
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
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
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
Introduction to Focus Group Interviewing Research Methods (June 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61356 61356-15090350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course introduces the skills needed to conduct focus group interviews. Students will learn about the critical components of successful focus group research. They will develop a plan for a focus group study and then practice key skills. Attention will be placed on moderating, recruiting, developing questions, and analysis of focus groups. This course will be particularly applicable for those conducting focus group research in academic, non-profit, and government settings.

Course Topics:

The course will cover these skills:

Planning—When to use focus groups and designing a study
Recruiting—Identifying information-rich participants and getting them to show up
Hosting—Creating a permissive and nonthreatening environment
Moderating—The crucial first few minutes and moderating techniques
Developing questions—Characteristics of good focus group questions
Analyzing—Options for analysis
Reporting—Options for sharing what was learned

Course Format

The course format includes daily lectures along with opportunities to practice critical skills in small groups.

Why Take This Course?

Focus groups are used to understand issues, pilot test ideas, and evaluate programs. They also provide great insight when used in combination with surveys. Focus groups have been used to help design surveys, to pilot test surveys, and to understand survey findings. Take this course if you want to learn more about how focus groups might add to your research toolbox.

Prerequisite: An introductory course in research methods or equivalent experience.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:49:10 -0500 2019-06-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-24T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Focus Group Interviewing Research Methods (June 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61356 61356-15090351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course introduces the skills needed to conduct focus group interviews. Students will learn about the critical components of successful focus group research. They will develop a plan for a focus group study and then practice key skills. Attention will be placed on moderating, recruiting, developing questions, and analysis of focus groups. This course will be particularly applicable for those conducting focus group research in academic, non-profit, and government settings.

Course Topics:

The course will cover these skills:

Planning—When to use focus groups and designing a study
Recruiting—Identifying information-rich participants and getting them to show up
Hosting—Creating a permissive and nonthreatening environment
Moderating—The crucial first few minutes and moderating techniques
Developing questions—Characteristics of good focus group questions
Analyzing—Options for analysis
Reporting—Options for sharing what was learned

Course Format

The course format includes daily lectures along with opportunities to practice critical skills in small groups.

Why Take This Course?

Focus groups are used to understand issues, pilot test ideas, and evaluate programs. They also provide great insight when used in combination with surveys. Focus groups have been used to help design surveys, to pilot test surveys, and to understand survey findings. Take this course if you want to learn more about how focus groups might add to your research toolbox.

Prerequisite: An introductory course in research methods or equivalent experience.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:49:10 -0500 2019-06-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-25T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Mixed Methods Research Design and Data Collection and Analysis (June 26, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61400 61400-15097074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This intensive course reviews mixed method research design principles, data collection strategies for combining multiple methods within a single research project, and strategies for analyzing data from multiple sources in a single study. We summarize the mixed method research process from the development of the research question to analysis and presentation of results. The methods examined include unstructured or in-depth interviews, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, survey interviews, observation, geographic information systems, archival research, social media and big/organic data analysis, and hybrid methods. Emphasis will be placed on the specific contribution of each method, as well as the integration of multiple alternative methods to advance specific research questions. This course is designed for those with a specific research question in mind – participants will be asked to design multi-method approaches to address a research question of their choice. By the end of this course, participants will have an overview of multi-method research that will enable them to design, understand, and evaluate multi-method approaches within a single project.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:59:36 -0500 2019-06-26T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-26T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Mixed Methods Research Design and Data Collection and Analysis (June 27, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61400 61400-15097075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 27, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This intensive course reviews mixed method research design principles, data collection strategies for combining multiple methods within a single research project, and strategies for analyzing data from multiple sources in a single study. We summarize the mixed method research process from the development of the research question to analysis and presentation of results. The methods examined include unstructured or in-depth interviews, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, survey interviews, observation, geographic information systems, archival research, social media and big/organic data analysis, and hybrid methods. Emphasis will be placed on the specific contribution of each method, as well as the integration of multiple alternative methods to advance specific research questions. This course is designed for those with a specific research question in mind – participants will be asked to design multi-method approaches to address a research question of their choice. By the end of this course, participants will have an overview of multi-method research that will enable them to design, understand, and evaluate multi-method approaches within a single project.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:59:36 -0500 2019-06-27T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-27T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Survey Methodology (July 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61358 61358-15090358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This 2-day course will introduce participants to the basic principles of survey design, presented within the Total Survey Error framework. The course provides an introduction to the skills and resources needed to design and conduct a survey, covering topics such as sampling frames and designs, mode of data collection and their impact on survey estimates, cognitive processes involved in answering survey questions, best questionnaire design practices, and pretesting methods.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:07:33 -0500 2019-07-01T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-01T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Survey Methodology (July 2, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61358 61358-15090359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This 2-day course will introduce participants to the basic principles of survey design, presented within the Total Survey Error framework. The course provides an introduction to the skills and resources needed to design and conduct a survey, covering topics such as sampling frames and designs, mode of data collection and their impact on survey estimates, cognitive processes involved in answering survey questions, best questionnaire design practices, and pretesting methods.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:07:33 -0500 2019-07-02T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-02T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Survey Methodology (July 3, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61358 61358-15090360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This 2-day course will introduce participants to the basic principles of survey design, presented within the Total Survey Error framework. The course provides an introduction to the skills and resources needed to design and conduct a survey, covering topics such as sampling frames and designs, mode of data collection and their impact on survey estimates, cognitive processes involved in answering survey questions, best questionnaire design practices, and pretesting methods.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:07:33 -0500 2019-07-03T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-03T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Survey Sampling (July 3, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61360 61360-15090369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This is a foundation course in sample survey methods and principles. The instructors will present, in a non-technical manner, basic sampling techniques such as simple random sampling, systematic sampling, stratification, and cluster sampling. The instructors will provide opportunities to implement sampling techniques in a series of exercises that accompany each topic.

Participants should not expect to obtain sufficient background in this course to master survey sampling. They can expect to become familiar with basic techniques well enough to converse with sampling statisticians more easily about sample design.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:41:48 -0500 2019-07-03T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-03T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Survey Methodology (July 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61358 61358-15090361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This 2-day course will introduce participants to the basic principles of survey design, presented within the Total Survey Error framework. The course provides an introduction to the skills and resources needed to design and conduct a survey, covering topics such as sampling frames and designs, mode of data collection and their impact on survey estimates, cognitive processes involved in answering survey questions, best questionnaire design practices, and pretesting methods.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:07:33 -0500 2019-07-04T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-04T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Survey Methodology (July 5, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61358 61358-15090362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 5, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This 2-day course will introduce participants to the basic principles of survey design, presented within the Total Survey Error framework. The course provides an introduction to the skills and resources needed to design and conduct a survey, covering topics such as sampling frames and designs, mode of data collection and their impact on survey estimates, cognitive processes involved in answering survey questions, best questionnaire design practices, and pretesting methods.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:07:33 -0500 2019-07-05T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-05T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Survey Sampling (July 5, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61360 61360-15090371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 5, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This is a foundation course in sample survey methods and principles. The instructors will present, in a non-technical manner, basic sampling techniques such as simple random sampling, systematic sampling, stratification, and cluster sampling. The instructors will provide opportunities to implement sampling techniques in a series of exercises that accompany each topic.

Participants should not expect to obtain sufficient background in this course to master survey sampling. They can expect to become familiar with basic techniques well enough to converse with sampling statisticians more easily about sample design.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:41:48 -0500 2019-07-05T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-05T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Questionnaire Design (July 8, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61406 61406-15099313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 8, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course provides an overview of the art and science of questionnaire design. Topics will include basic principles of questionnaire design; factual and non-factual questions; techniques for asking about sensitive topics; designing scales and response options; survey mode considerations; and an introduction to pre-testing surveys. The course will consist of both lectures and hands-on activities.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:31:32 -0500 2019-07-08T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Probability and Non-Probability Sampling Methods (July 8, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61403 61403-15099305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 8, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Probability and Non-probability Sampling Methods is a sampling course that differs from traditional sampling classes. First, this class gives an equal amount of attention to both probability and non-probability sampling methods as non-probability sampling cannot be discussed meaningfully without understanding probability sampling and these two methods offer distinctive advantages and disadvantages. Second, this class will combine theoretical/conceptual parts of sampling through lectures and practical applications of different approaches through lab sessions.

The course will start with examining probability sampling techniques and their properties, including simple random selection, systematic selection, cluster sampling, stratified sampling, and probability proportionate to size selection. Issues of weighting to compensate for unequal chances of selection and variance estimation for calculating confidence intervals are also examined. Then the wide variety of non-probability sampling methods are examined, from panel-based convenience samples, to river samples, quota samples, respondent-driven samples, and other techniques. The properties of these samples are discussed, and assumptions needed to obtain estimates are examined. We will also examine these two approaches from the total survey error perspectives.

The lab sessions to be held after each class will combine R programming and group discussions on the topics that need to be considered when implementing various sampling approaches. Hands-on examples of frame preparation, sample draws, post-survey adjustments and analysis specific to design will be provided and discussed.

The course is not designed to provide the mastery of survey sampling. Rather, it provides materials that will accommodate participants to become familiar with advantages and disadvantages of the two methods and their implementation which will allow them to make informed design decisions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:18:35 -0500 2019-07-08T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Web Survey Design (July 8, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61432 61432-15099350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 8, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

The course focuses on the design of Web survey instruments and procedures. The course covers all aspects of instrument design for Web surveys, including the appropriate use of various input tools (e.g., radio buttons, check boxes) for Web surveys, general formatting and layout issues, movement through the instrument (action buttons, navigation, error messages), and so on. The course draws on empirical results from experiments on alternative design approaches as well as practical experience in the design and implementation of a wide variety of Web surveys. The course also covers the challenges of designing Web surveys for mobile devices (smartphones and tablets), and the collection and use of paradata to evaluate Web survey instruments. The course does not focus on the technical aspects of Web survey implementation, such as hardware, software or programming. It also does not focus on general survey design or questionnaire design – participants are expected to have some familiarity with surveys.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:13:04 -0500 2019-07-08T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-08T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
A Virtually Syntax Free Practical Introduction to Web Scrapping for Survey and Social Science Researchers (July 8, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60863 60863-14979675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 8, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This short course will offer a very practical introduction to web scraping geared at social scientists and survey researchers. This course begins with an overview of web scraping discussing some basic technical jargon, types of web data and various methods for scraping. Some websites are designed to be easily accessible by web crawlers or scraping algorithms while others require much more advanced, custom programming. In this course we will illustrate how participants can discern these differences as well as presenting several motivating examples of the various ways web scraped data can be used throughout a study’s lifecycle from design to calibration to analysis. We provide an extensive introduction to a suite of freeware programs that allow virtually syntax free, but customizable, web scraping capabilities. The course concludes with specific focus on the import.io tool where we demonstrate its capabilities and provide several, hands-on practical examples for participants to begin scraping several websites of increasing complexity.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:01:36 -0500 2019-07-08T13:00:00-04:00 2019-07-08T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar Mason Hall
Introduction to Questionnaire Design (July 9, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61406 61406-15099314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course provides an overview of the art and science of questionnaire design. Topics will include basic principles of questionnaire design; factual and non-factual questions; techniques for asking about sensitive topics; designing scales and response options; survey mode considerations; and an introduction to pre-testing surveys. The course will consist of both lectures and hands-on activities.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:31:32 -0500 2019-07-09T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-09T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Probability and Non-Probability Sampling Methods (July 9, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61403 61403-15099306@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Probability and Non-probability Sampling Methods is a sampling course that differs from traditional sampling classes. First, this class gives an equal amount of attention to both probability and non-probability sampling methods as non-probability sampling cannot be discussed meaningfully without understanding probability sampling and these two methods offer distinctive advantages and disadvantages. Second, this class will combine theoretical/conceptual parts of sampling through lectures and practical applications of different approaches through lab sessions.

The course will start with examining probability sampling techniques and their properties, including simple random selection, systematic selection, cluster sampling, stratified sampling, and probability proportionate to size selection. Issues of weighting to compensate for unequal chances of selection and variance estimation for calculating confidence intervals are also examined. Then the wide variety of non-probability sampling methods are examined, from panel-based convenience samples, to river samples, quota samples, respondent-driven samples, and other techniques. The properties of these samples are discussed, and assumptions needed to obtain estimates are examined. We will also examine these two approaches from the total survey error perspectives.

The lab sessions to be held after each class will combine R programming and group discussions on the topics that need to be considered when implementing various sampling approaches. Hands-on examples of frame preparation, sample draws, post-survey adjustments and analysis specific to design will be provided and discussed.

The course is not designed to provide the mastery of survey sampling. Rather, it provides materials that will accommodate participants to become familiar with advantages and disadvantages of the two methods and their implementation which will allow them to make informed design decisions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:18:35 -0500 2019-07-09T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-09T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Web Survey Design (July 9, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61432 61432-15099351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

The course focuses on the design of Web survey instruments and procedures. The course covers all aspects of instrument design for Web surveys, including the appropriate use of various input tools (e.g., radio buttons, check boxes) for Web surveys, general formatting and layout issues, movement through the instrument (action buttons, navigation, error messages), and so on. The course draws on empirical results from experiments on alternative design approaches as well as practical experience in the design and implementation of a wide variety of Web surveys. The course also covers the challenges of designing Web surveys for mobile devices (smartphones and tablets), and the collection and use of paradata to evaluate Web survey instruments. The course does not focus on the technical aspects of Web survey implementation, such as hardware, software or programming. It also does not focus on general survey design or questionnaire design – participants are expected to have some familiarity with surveys.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:13:04 -0500 2019-07-09T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-09T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
A Virtually Syntax Free Practical Introduction to Web Scrapping for Survey and Social Science Researchers (July 9, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60863 60863-14979676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This short course will offer a very practical introduction to web scraping geared at social scientists and survey researchers. This course begins with an overview of web scraping discussing some basic technical jargon, types of web data and various methods for scraping. Some websites are designed to be easily accessible by web crawlers or scraping algorithms while others require much more advanced, custom programming. In this course we will illustrate how participants can discern these differences as well as presenting several motivating examples of the various ways web scraped data can be used throughout a study’s lifecycle from design to calibration to analysis. We provide an extensive introduction to a suite of freeware programs that allow virtually syntax free, but customizable, web scraping capabilities. The course concludes with specific focus on the import.io tool where we demonstrate its capabilities and provide several, hands-on practical examples for participants to begin scraping several websites of increasing complexity.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:01:36 -0500 2019-07-09T13:00:00-04:00 2019-07-09T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar Mason Hall
Introduction to Questionnaire Design (July 10, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61406 61406-15099315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course provides an overview of the art and science of questionnaire design. Topics will include basic principles of questionnaire design; factual and non-factual questions; techniques for asking about sensitive topics; designing scales and response options; survey mode considerations; and an introduction to pre-testing surveys. The course will consist of both lectures and hands-on activities.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:31:32 -0500 2019-07-10T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-10T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Probability and Non-Probability Sampling Methods (July 10, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61403 61403-15099307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Probability and Non-probability Sampling Methods is a sampling course that differs from traditional sampling classes. First, this class gives an equal amount of attention to both probability and non-probability sampling methods as non-probability sampling cannot be discussed meaningfully without understanding probability sampling and these two methods offer distinctive advantages and disadvantages. Second, this class will combine theoretical/conceptual parts of sampling through lectures and practical applications of different approaches through lab sessions.

The course will start with examining probability sampling techniques and their properties, including simple random selection, systematic selection, cluster sampling, stratified sampling, and probability proportionate to size selection. Issues of weighting to compensate for unequal chances of selection and variance estimation for calculating confidence intervals are also examined. Then the wide variety of non-probability sampling methods are examined, from panel-based convenience samples, to river samples, quota samples, respondent-driven samples, and other techniques. The properties of these samples are discussed, and assumptions needed to obtain estimates are examined. We will also examine these two approaches from the total survey error perspectives.

The lab sessions to be held after each class will combine R programming and group discussions on the topics that need to be considered when implementing various sampling approaches. Hands-on examples of frame preparation, sample draws, post-survey adjustments and analysis specific to design will be provided and discussed.

The course is not designed to provide the mastery of survey sampling. Rather, it provides materials that will accommodate participants to become familiar with advantages and disadvantages of the two methods and their implementation which will allow them to make informed design decisions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:18:35 -0500 2019-07-10T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-10T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Web Survey Design (July 10, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61432 61432-15099352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

The course focuses on the design of Web survey instruments and procedures. The course covers all aspects of instrument design for Web surveys, including the appropriate use of various input tools (e.g., radio buttons, check boxes) for Web surveys, general formatting and layout issues, movement through the instrument (action buttons, navigation, error messages), and so on. The course draws on empirical results from experiments on alternative design approaches as well as practical experience in the design and implementation of a wide variety of Web surveys. The course also covers the challenges of designing Web surveys for mobile devices (smartphones and tablets), and the collection and use of paradata to evaluate Web survey instruments. The course does not focus on the technical aspects of Web survey implementation, such as hardware, software or programming. It also does not focus on general survey design or questionnaire design – participants are expected to have some familiarity with surveys.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:13:04 -0500 2019-07-10T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-10T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
Introduction to Data Collection Methods (July 11, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61349 61349-15090338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 11, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This 2-day workshop will introduce students to different methods of collecting data in the social sciences. Surveys are the most common form of collecting primary data in many disciplines, and this course will provide students with an overview of interview-administered (face-to-face and telephone) and self-administered (mail, web, mobile web, and SMS) survey data collection as well as the combination of multiple modes (mixed mode surveys). The course will in particular discuss the implication of survey design decisions on data quality. In addition, students will also receive an overview on alternative data sources (e.g., passive measurement, social media and administrative data) and how they can be used in combination with traditional survey data.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:11:22 -0500 2019-07-11T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-11T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Questionnaire Design (July 11, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61406 61406-15099316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 11, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course provides an overview of the art and science of questionnaire design. Topics will include basic principles of questionnaire design; factual and non-factual questions; techniques for asking about sensitive topics; designing scales and response options; survey mode considerations; and an introduction to pre-testing surveys. The course will consist of both lectures and hands-on activities.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:31:32 -0500 2019-07-11T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-11T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Probability and Non-Probability Sampling Methods (July 11, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61403 61403-15099308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 11, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Probability and Non-probability Sampling Methods is a sampling course that differs from traditional sampling classes. First, this class gives an equal amount of attention to both probability and non-probability sampling methods as non-probability sampling cannot be discussed meaningfully without understanding probability sampling and these two methods offer distinctive advantages and disadvantages. Second, this class will combine theoretical/conceptual parts of sampling through lectures and practical applications of different approaches through lab sessions.

The course will start with examining probability sampling techniques and their properties, including simple random selection, systematic selection, cluster sampling, stratified sampling, and probability proportionate to size selection. Issues of weighting to compensate for unequal chances of selection and variance estimation for calculating confidence intervals are also examined. Then the wide variety of non-probability sampling methods are examined, from panel-based convenience samples, to river samples, quota samples, respondent-driven samples, and other techniques. The properties of these samples are discussed, and assumptions needed to obtain estimates are examined. We will also examine these two approaches from the total survey error perspectives.

The lab sessions to be held after each class will combine R programming and group discussions on the topics that need to be considered when implementing various sampling approaches. Hands-on examples of frame preparation, sample draws, post-survey adjustments and analysis specific to design will be provided and discussed.

The course is not designed to provide the mastery of survey sampling. Rather, it provides materials that will accommodate participants to become familiar with advantages and disadvantages of the two methods and their implementation which will allow them to make informed design decisions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:18:35 -0500 2019-07-11T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-11T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Web Survey Design (July 11, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61432 61432-15099353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 11, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

The course focuses on the design of Web survey instruments and procedures. The course covers all aspects of instrument design for Web surveys, including the appropriate use of various input tools (e.g., radio buttons, check boxes) for Web surveys, general formatting and layout issues, movement through the instrument (action buttons, navigation, error messages), and so on. The course draws on empirical results from experiments on alternative design approaches as well as practical experience in the design and implementation of a wide variety of Web surveys. The course also covers the challenges of designing Web surveys for mobile devices (smartphones and tablets), and the collection and use of paradata to evaluate Web survey instruments. The course does not focus on the technical aspects of Web survey implementation, such as hardware, software or programming. It also does not focus on general survey design or questionnaire design – participants are expected to have some familiarity with surveys.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:13:04 -0500 2019-07-11T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-11T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
Virtual Summer Information Session (July 11, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63800 63800-15881958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 11, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

For new LSA students (first-time, first-year, and transfer) who have attended orientation and have not started classes, the LSA Opportunity Hub is offering virtual sessions to share information about the Hub.
Presenters will introduce the Hub and our services, explain why students should connect with us, and talk about what happens when they visit. We'll also answer questions and provide next step suggestions and options for students who are eager to advance their career exploration and development.

To register, students should contact the Hub at 734-763-4674 or lsa-opphub@umich.edu.

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 28 May 2019 16:14:02 -0400 2019-07-11T15:00:00-04:00 2019-07-11T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Careers / Jobs Hub Logo
Introduction to Data Collection Methods (July 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61349 61349-15090339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This 2-day workshop will introduce students to different methods of collecting data in the social sciences. Surveys are the most common form of collecting primary data in many disciplines, and this course will provide students with an overview of interview-administered (face-to-face and telephone) and self-administered (mail, web, mobile web, and SMS) survey data collection as well as the combination of multiple modes (mixed mode surveys). The course will in particular discuss the implication of survey design decisions on data quality. In addition, students will also receive an overview on alternative data sources (e.g., passive measurement, social media and administrative data) and how they can be used in combination with traditional survey data.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:11:22 -0500 2019-07-12T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Questionnaire Design (July 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61406 61406-15099317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course provides an overview of the art and science of questionnaire design. Topics will include basic principles of questionnaire design; factual and non-factual questions; techniques for asking about sensitive topics; designing scales and response options; survey mode considerations; and an introduction to pre-testing surveys. The course will consist of both lectures and hands-on activities.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:31:32 -0500 2019-07-12T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Probability and Non-Probability Sampling Methods (July 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61403 61403-15099309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Probability and Non-probability Sampling Methods is a sampling course that differs from traditional sampling classes. First, this class gives an equal amount of attention to both probability and non-probability sampling methods as non-probability sampling cannot be discussed meaningfully without understanding probability sampling and these two methods offer distinctive advantages and disadvantages. Second, this class will combine theoretical/conceptual parts of sampling through lectures and practical applications of different approaches through lab sessions.

The course will start with examining probability sampling techniques and their properties, including simple random selection, systematic selection, cluster sampling, stratified sampling, and probability proportionate to size selection. Issues of weighting to compensate for unequal chances of selection and variance estimation for calculating confidence intervals are also examined. Then the wide variety of non-probability sampling methods are examined, from panel-based convenience samples, to river samples, quota samples, respondent-driven samples, and other techniques. The properties of these samples are discussed, and assumptions needed to obtain estimates are examined. We will also examine these two approaches from the total survey error perspectives.

The lab sessions to be held after each class will combine R programming and group discussions on the topics that need to be considered when implementing various sampling approaches. Hands-on examples of frame preparation, sample draws, post-survey adjustments and analysis specific to design will be provided and discussed.

The course is not designed to provide the mastery of survey sampling. Rather, it provides materials that will accommodate participants to become familiar with advantages and disadvantages of the two methods and their implementation which will allow them to make informed design decisions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:18:35 -0500 2019-07-12T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Web Survey Design (July 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61432 61432-15099354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

The course focuses on the design of Web survey instruments and procedures. The course covers all aspects of instrument design for Web surveys, including the appropriate use of various input tools (e.g., radio buttons, check boxes) for Web surveys, general formatting and layout issues, movement through the instrument (action buttons, navigation, error messages), and so on. The course draws on empirical results from experiments on alternative design approaches as well as practical experience in the design and implementation of a wide variety of Web surveys. The course also covers the challenges of designing Web surveys for mobile devices (smartphones and tablets), and the collection and use of paradata to evaluate Web survey instruments. The course does not focus on the technical aspects of Web survey implementation, such as hardware, software or programming. It also does not focus on general survey design or questionnaire design – participants are expected to have some familiarity with surveys.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:13:04 -0500 2019-07-12T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-12T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
Summer Housing Fair (July 12, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63631 63631-15822804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 12, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Beyond the Diag

The housing fairs are meant to simplify the search for students seeking off-campus housing. Students will have the opportunity to:

- Speak with landlords face-to-face to learn about pricing and amenities
- Explore their options of homes and apartments in the Ann Arbor area
- Receive peer-to-peer support from Neighborhood Ambassadors
- Check in with campus partners about legal considerations, conflict resolution, off-campus transportation, and home safety

Attendees can enter to win giveaways at the fair at the Beyond the Diag table! Faculty and staff are encouraged to attend to learn how they can support students through this process.

Open to all students, faculty, staff, and community members!

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Fair / Festival Fri, 14 Jun 2019 09:45:51 -0400 2019-07-12T15:00:00-04:00 2019-07-12T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Beyond the Diag Fair / Festival Manager highlighting housing for students
Introduction to Applied Questionnaire Design (July 17, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61357 61357-15090352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 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 2019-07-17T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-17T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Virtual Summer Information Session (August 1, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63800 63800-15881959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 1, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

For new LSA students (first-time, first-year, and transfer) who have attended orientation and have not started classes, the LSA Opportunity Hub is offering virtual sessions to share information about the Hub.
Presenters will introduce the Hub and our services, explain why students should connect with us, and talk about what happens when they visit. We'll also answer questions and provide next step suggestions and options for students who are eager to advance their career exploration and development.

To register, students should contact the Hub at 734-763-4674 or lsa-opphub@umich.edu.

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 28 May 2019 16:14:02 -0400 2019-08-01T18:00:00-04:00 2019-08-01T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Careers / Jobs Hub Logo
Lansing Community College Visit (September 10, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66799 66799-16778990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Come visit the College of LSA from the University of Michigan's table at Lansing Community College on September 13th, 2019!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 10 Sep 2019 12:55:58 -0400 2019-09-10T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
El Camino College Visit (September 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66802 66802-16778996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Come visit the College of LSA from the University of Michigan's table at El Camino College on September 19th, 2019!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 10 Sep 2019 12:58:57 -0400 2019-09-10T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T13:00:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
Grand Rapids Community College Visit (September 11, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65871 65871-16662154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

If you are interested in transferring to the College of LSA at the University, come talk to Nick Turinsky on the 3rd floor Student Center Building.

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Fair / Festival Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:09:49 -0400 2019-09-11T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
Grand Rapids Community College Visit (September 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65872 65872-16662156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

If you are interested in transferring to the College of LSA at the University, come talk to Nick Turinsky on the 3rd floor Student Center Building.

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Fair / Festival Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:12:39 -0400 2019-09-12T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T15:00:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
Lansing Community College Visit (September 13, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66799 66799-16778993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Come visit the College of LSA from the University of Michigan's table at Lansing Community College on September 13th, 2019!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 10 Sep 2019 12:55:58 -0400 2019-09-13T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
Delta College Visit (September 17, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66800 66800-16778992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Come visit the College of LSA from the University of Michigan's table at Delta College on September 17th, 2019!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 10 Sep 2019 12:54:59 -0400 2019-09-17T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T14:00:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
Grand Rapids Community College Visit (September 17, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67340 67340-16839880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Come visit the College of LSA from the University of Michigan's table at Grand Rapids Community College on September 26th, 2019!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:51:45 -0400 2019-09-17T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T14:00:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
Pasadena City College Visit (September 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66801 66801-16778994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Come visit the College of LSA from the University of Michigan's table at Pasadena City College on September 18th, 2019!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 10 Sep 2019 12:57:37 -0400 2019-09-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
Washtenaw Community College Visit (September 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66803 66803-16778997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Come visit the College of LSA from the University of Michigan's table at Washtenaw Community College on September 19th, 2019!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:00:13 -0400 2019-09-19T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T14:00:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
Schoolcraft College Visit (September 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66804 66804-16778998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Come visit the College of LSA from the University of Michigan's table at Schoolcraft College on September 20th, 2019!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:01:12 -0400 2019-09-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
Lansing Community College Visit (September 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66806 66806-16779000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Come visit the College of LSA from the University of Michigan's table at Lansing Community College on September 23rd, 2019!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:05:22 -0400 2019-09-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
Lake Michigan College Visit (September 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66805 66805-16778999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Come visit the College of LSA from the University of Michigan's table at Lake Michigan College on September 23rd, 2019!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:04:23 -0400 2019-09-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
Kalamazoo Valley Community College (September 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67337 67337-16839875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Come visit the College of LSA from the University of Michigan's table at Kalamazoo Valley Community College on September 24th, 2019!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:47:45 -0400 2019-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
Kalamazoo Valley Community College (September 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67339 67339-16839879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Come visit the College of LSA from the University of Michigan's table at Kalamazoo Valley Community College on September 24th, 2019!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:50:26 -0400 2019-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
Washtenaw Community College Visit (September 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66807 66807-16779001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Come visit the College of LSA from the University of Michigan's table at Washtenaw Community College on September 24th, 2019!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:06:29 -0400 2019-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T14:00:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
Harry Truman College Visit (September 25, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67338 67338-16839878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 11:30am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Come visit the College of LSA from the University of Michigan's table at Harry Truman College on September 25th, 2019!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:49:17 -0400 2019-09-25T11:30:00-04:00 2019-09-25T14:30:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
Guttman Community College (September 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67341 67341-16839881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Come visit the College of LSA from the University of Michigan's table at Guttman Community College on September 26th, 2019!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:52:54 -0400 2019-09-26T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
Henry Ford College Discover Days (September 27, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67342 67342-16839882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Come visit the College of LSA from the University of Michigan's table at Henry Ford College on September 27th, 2019!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:55:29 -0400 2019-09-27T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Fair / Festival
Leadership Lunch: Meet the BLI Tailgate (October 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67644 67644-16909317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

The Barger Leadership Institute is excited to invite you to our Tailgate-themed Leadership Lunch on Friday, October 4th from 12-1:30pm! Join us as we kick off Homecoming weekend with this casual meet and greet in the BLI Open Space with giant Jenga, music, face-painting, and a bunch of amazing food. Everyone is welcome to meet BLI leadership fellows, current members, alumni, and learn more about the incredible opportunities at BLI!

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:54:09 -0400 2019-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Social / Informal Gathering Meet the BLI
CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership (October 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67526 67526-17128444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: CEW+

Join CEW+ for its annual fall symposium focused on redefining leadership. The 2019 Symposium includes a diverse group of scholars, community practitioners and international activists who embody leadership in varied ways as they advocate for change. This year Shannon Cohen and Stephanie Land will kick off the Symposium during the Mullin Welch Lecture where they will discuss how nontraditional leadership strategies can enhance advocacy work with a focus on self-care, resilience, and systemic change.

This working symposium is free and open to all activists, advocates, and allies from all U-M campuses (students, staff, faculty) as well as the local community.

RSVP now: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/cew-advocacy-symposium-redefining-leadership

The CEW+ Advocacy Symposium is organized in partnership with Barger Leadership Institute and Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan with funding from CEW+’s Frances & Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and the CEW+ Mullin Welch Fund.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:25:50 -0400 2019-10-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 CEW+ Conference / Symposium blue hand holding megaphone with the CEW+ logo on it, with maize and blue ribbons coming out of it, text underneath that says CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership. October 29th, 2019
Young, Gifted, @Risk & Resilient (October 24, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66398 66398-16734178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 8:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Mark your calendars for the 2019 Young, Gifted, @Risk, & Resilient (YGARR) national conference at the University of Michigan! This day-long conference will bring together leading researchers, practitioners, administrators, faculty, and students to focus on campus climate and mental health among young adult/college students of color.

The current dialogue on mental health among college students has become a nationwide priority. Students of color in particular are tasked with navigating unique circumstances that can negatively influence their mental health, including racial/ethnic discrimination disparities in service utilization that can be exacerbated by discrimination experiences, treatment related to immigration status, and racialized sexual and gender marginalization. Yet, there is a relative dearth of scholarship specifically focused on the roles and impacts of campus climates characterized by these types of experiences on the mental health and well-being of college students of color. Such gaps in knowledge inhibit our ability to fully provide high quality, responsive, and equitable and inclusive supports and services.

This national conference is a collaboration between The Steve Fund, the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) and the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI) at the University of Michigan. The conference curriculum is informed by the longstanding work of The Steve Fund and the latest research and insights from scholars and practitioners across the country. Conference participants will explore national and campus socio-political contexts and take away best practices in order to foster spaces and places that promote emotional well-being for students of color. We hope you will join us as we work towards advancing research and informing practice to better support students of color across the country.

We welcome you to visit the conference website to learn more. If you have any questions, please email Laura Sánchez-Parkinson at lasanche@umich.edu.

#YGARR2019 #SteveFundUmich #ResilientMichigan

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:00:18 -0400 2019-10-24T08:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan League National Center for Institutional Diversity Conference / Symposium Image of group of students, with conference title superimposed
CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership (October 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67526 67526-16890095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: CEW+

Join CEW+ for its annual fall symposium focused on redefining leadership. The 2019 Symposium includes a diverse group of scholars, community practitioners and international activists who embody leadership in varied ways as they advocate for change. This year Shannon Cohen and Stephanie Land will kick off the Symposium during the Mullin Welch Lecture where they will discuss how nontraditional leadership strategies can enhance advocacy work with a focus on self-care, resilience, and systemic change.

This working symposium is free and open to all activists, advocates, and allies from all U-M campuses (students, staff, faculty) as well as the local community.

RSVP now: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/cew-advocacy-symposium-redefining-leadership

The CEW+ Advocacy Symposium is organized in partnership with Barger Leadership Institute and Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan with funding from CEW+’s Frances & Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and the CEW+ Mullin Welch Fund.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:25:50 -0400 2019-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League CEW+ Conference / Symposium blue hand holding megaphone with the CEW+ logo on it, with maize and blue ribbons coming out of it, text underneath that says CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership. October 29th, 2019
ChE Open House for Undergraduate Students (October 30, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67945 67945-16969035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 5:00pm
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Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Considering declaring chemical engineering as your major? Or, curious how a chemical engineering degree could accelerate your career across diverse industries?

Explore ChE during Michigan Chemical Engineering's open house from 5-7 pm on Wednesday, Oct. 30 in Chrysler Building 2nd floor lobby on North Campus.

Meet with chemical engineering students and faculty, connect with our undergraduate advisor and see live demos by ChE student design teams. Dinner will be provided.

To learn more about Michigan Chemical Engineering undergraduate program, please visit: https://che.engin.umich.edu/undergraduate/program/

Or visit Michigan Engineering's Majors website: https://majors.engin.umich.edu/program/chemical-engineering/

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Reception / Open House Wed, 09 Oct 2019 11:42:27 -0400 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T19:00:00-04:00 Chemical Engineering Reception / Open House
Getting Your Credits to Transfer: Navigating a Decentralized University (November 4, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68895 68895-17188755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Newnan-ELI Fall 2019 Undergraduate Sessions

All interested international undergraduate transfer students are invited to this session, a conversation with Newnan and ELI about how to navigate the complex credit transfer approval process in this large, decentralized university. You might be particularly interested in this session if you have credits that have not successfully transferred yet, or if you're thinking about taking a future summer course at another school that you'd like to transfer back to Michigan.

Registration Required: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/20506

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:35:21 -0400 2019-11-04T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
OS Info Night (November 5, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67785 67785-16951986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Organizational Studies Program (OS)

Want to learn more about Organizational Studies?

Join us to hear more about this interdisciplinary major based in social sciences where students customize their own education. Enjoy a small community of dedicated and ambitious students with access to top-notch faculty and an engaged alumni network.

You'll have the opportunity to hear from the Program Director, Major Advisor, Prospective Student Advisors, and a diverse panel of OS students!

Feel free to visit our website in the meantime for more information on the curriculum, application, or to sign-up for a prospective student advising meeting!

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Reception / Open House Mon, 30 Sep 2019 12:06:26 -0400 2019-11-05T17:30:00-05:00 2019-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Organizational Studies Program (OS) Reception / Open House OS Info Night
Mindfulness Meditation Workshop – A Cognitive Skill to Enhance Daily Living (January 31, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71009 71009-17768590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 10:30am
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis. Evidence-based mindful meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. This workshop will provide an overview of the basics of this powerful tool, introduce ways to incorporate both formal and informal mindful meditation practices into daily life, and a guided mindful meditation experience. In addition, every Wednesday from 12:15 – 12:45 pm, CEW+ holds guided mindful meditation sessions providing a weekly opportunity to practice in a supportive space.

RSVP online at: cew.umich.edu/events/mindfulness-meditation-workshop-a-cognitive-skill-to-enhance-daily-living

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Well-being Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:03:25 -0500 2020-01-31T10:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T11:30:00-05:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Well-being “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
Preparing a Strong CEW+ Scholarship Application (February 7, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69669 69669-17376522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Join the CEW+ Scholarship team for an overview of CEW+ Scholarship application components, tips on crafting a strong application, and answers to your questions about eligibility, the review process, award types, and more.

The CEW+ Scholarship Application will be available on January 15th and the application process closes on April 1, 2020, for funding available during the 2020-21 academic year.

RSVP here to attend: cew.umich.edu/events/preparing-a-strong-cew-scholarship-application

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:15:23 -0500 2020-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T14:30:00-05:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar fingers typing on a laptop
Saturday Morning Physics | The Universe Caught Speeding: Dark Energy, Two Decades After (February 8, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70879 70879-17726703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In the late 1990s cosmologists discovered that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, not slowing down as expected. This discovery, honored with the Physics Nobel Prize in 2011, has generated waves in the field of cosmology and presents us with a grand mystery: what is the origin and nature of dark energy, the stuff that causes the accelerated expansion? Professor Huterer will review the exciting new developments in this field, including hints for new physics lurking in the data, and the upcoming ground and space telescopes dedicated to solve the dark energy mystery.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:43:26 -0500 2020-02-08T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-08T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Dark matter density (left) transitioning to gas density (right). Credit: Illustris Simulations
2020 Ford Distinguished Lecture in Physics | Tracking the Motion Inside Molecules with X-Ray Lasers (February 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70890 70890-17732907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

The last decade marked the development of a new kind of powerful research laser that can deliver a trillion 1-Angstrom x-rays in a femtosecond or even less. This x-ray free-electron laser is revolutionizing the way scientists observe dynamics on the quantum scale in the laboratory. We are beginning to learn how to track the relative motion of atoms inside molecules. Professor Bucksbaum will discuss the current efforts and future opportunities to employ these sources for molecular movies.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Feb 2020 12:51:38 -0500 2020-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Workshop / Seminar electrons streaming