Questions tagged [survey-research]
Questions relating to use of a survey as a research instrument. For questions on survey (review) articles that give an overview of a field or topic, use 'review-articles' instead.
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What is the difference between Survey, SMS, and SLR
I wonder if there is actual difference among a survey, systematic mapping study, and a systematic literature review? All of them involve three main phases: specifying research questions and search ...
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When do you need Ethics Approval in Humanities research?
Sorry if this sounds clueless - I actually am. I'm in a historical, literary field so I've never had to worry about doing any ethics approval things because I've never had to deal with real, living ...
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Do you reveal purpose of questionnaire to respondents?
I recently received an invitation to answer a questionnaire from a student in the social sciences. The results will be used as part of the research for a Master's thesis.
The invitation describes the ...
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Changing demographics data that was responded incorrectly in a survey to be published
We have a research paper that we want to get published in a journal. The paper is some simple statistical analysis of a survey we made. One of the questions in the demographics section is "What ...
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Do you need permission from the gov't of a town to conduct a questionnaire survey there?
I'm conducting a study in which people from a particular town will fill out an opinion questionnaire (Likert scale stuff, questions about road signs). I was going to do this in front of a grocery ...
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How important is publishing state-of-the-art surveys?
I am a Ph. D. student in computer science. I often cite surveys and find them very useful. By surveys I mean cataloging the state-of-the-art of all scientific efforts made in a single area. Not ...
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Publishing a master's thesis
A master's student in the department of mathematics that I work in has recently finished his master's thesis, on a topic that is well represented in the literature. There are several books and surveys ...
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Writing a Survey Paper on the recent research
I am interested in a research topic (say X). I see several survey papers on X, but they all date back to 2013. I can't find a recent survey paper from 2013 to 2022. I feel a need to get a recent ...
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What is the scope of an unregistered IRB? [closed]
The community college I attend has an IRB that is not registered with the FDA and is supposed to review projects conducted by students or faculty. I (as a student) would like to conduct a survey (that ...
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Are anonymous online surveys exempt from IRB?
This is for a research paper, and the survey was sent to thousands of people through publically available email information.
Because the response rate is low, and we don't ask for any self-identity ...
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What questions can be put into a survey to prevent low-quality responses? [closed]
I'm designing a survey and I heard that there's a technique that sets up some questions in the middle of the survey to see if people are actually reading these questions.
Could anyone provide me the ...
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How do I distribute a survey questionnaire to obtain a reasonable response rate? [closed]
I have built a survey questionnaire focused on Software Engineering Researchers and now I need to distribute it, but I am not so sure how. My questions are:
Are there any other means to distribute it ...
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Academic prospect survey
Is there any survey which shows the schools that current professors have attended in the past?
For example, "10% of current tenure positions in EU are held by Cambridge PhD graduates"
I'm ...
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How does copyright work on questionnaires with similar items?
I have seen in certain types of questionnaires that the content is very similar, and that, possibly by coincidence, certain phrases are the same.
Let me give you an example: the organizational ...
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How to properly use paid participation survey in my research? [closed]
My field of study is business communication and I tried to gather responses for my survey by contacting target audience by email directly, however response rates were next to 0%. Now I'm considering ...
