CREATING SURVEYS Second Edition

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Part 1: Planning and Organizing a Survey

Unit 1: Planning a Survey

Chapter 1. Focusing on a Purpose 19

Chapter 2. Learning from Previous Research 26

Chapter 3. Writing Items and Questions 40

Chapter 4. Organizing and Formatting Surveys 55

Chapter 5. Getting Approval: Ethical Thinking 63

Chapter 6. Selecting Respondents 68

Unit 2: Using Surveys to Understand People

Chapter 7. Considering Multiple Dimensions 79

Chapter 8. Assessing Self 95

Chapter 9. Assessing Spirituality 104

Chapter 10. Assessing Cognition 110

Chapter 11. Assessing Behavior Patterns and Personality 115

Chapter 12. Assessing Physical Health 124

Chapter 13. Assessing Emotions and Attitudes 131

Chapter 14. Assessing Social Context 135

Part 2: Understanding and Presenting Results

Unit 3: Understanding Basic Survey Designs and Statistics

Chapter 15. Using Surveys to Evaluate Workshops 143

Chapter 16. Understanding Survey Results: Part 1 154

Chapter 17. Understanding Survey Results: Part 2 162

Chapter 18. Assessing Survey Reliability 175

Chapter 19. Assessing Survey Validity 181

Unit 4: Communicating Results

Chapter 20. Writing Survey Reports 191

Chapter 21. Presenting to a Group 202

References 211

Glossary 223

Appendix A: Survey Approval Checklist 238

Appendix B: Online Ethics Resources 240

Appendix C: Survey Consent Example 242

Appendix D: Survey Debriefing Example 245

Appendix E: Organizing a Spreadsheet 247

Appendix F: Examples of Survey Items 248

Appendix G: Sample Workshop Evaluation 253

Appendix H: List of Survey Measures 255

Table of Contents: Expanded 258

Acknowledgments 269

About the Author 271