{"id":128372,"date":"2020-06-03T12:41:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T16:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=128372"},"modified":"2020-10-14T16:55:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T20:55:56","slug":"internal-survey-development-consulting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/data-management-analytics\/official-university-information-reporting\/internal-survey-development-consulting\/","title":{"rendered":"Internal Survey Development &#038; Consulting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\" bu-callout alignright\">\n<h3><span class=\"tw icon-mapmarker\"><\/span> Quick Start<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Available to:<\/strong> Faculty, Researchers, Staff, Departments, IT Professionals<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost: <\/strong>No charge<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See <a href=\"#GettingStarted\">Getting Started<\/a>, below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div><br \/>\nIn cooperation with\u00a0key administrative\u00a0offices,\u00a0we provide\u00a0consulting, development assistance, and resources for distribution and analysis information collection\u00a0surveys\u00a0to support administrative initiatives.\u00a0 This may include assistance with defining\u00a0questions\u00a0and question types, selecting the sample\u00a0population, designing the survey instrument, recommending\u00a0appropriate\u00a0incentives, analyzing the responses, compiling stakeholder and public reports, recommending a\u00a0realistic\u00a0timeline,\u00a0identifying partners across campus, and highlighting existing resources that\u00a0may already answer the proposed questions.<\/p>\n<h2>Benefits<\/h2>\n<p>By providing central support we\u00a0are able to\u00a0educate the\u00a0community on which\u00a0data is already\u00a0collected, ensuring crucial\u00a0populations are not over-surveyed.\u00a0 We reduce survey fatigue,\u00a0safeguard\u00a0against inappropriate\u00a0data\u00a0use and distribution, facilitate communications between key stakeholders,\u00a0reinforce IRB approval as required, and help maximize survey response rates.<\/p>\n<h2>Key Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Providing consulting services and education regarding survey best practices<\/li>\n<li>Designing the survey instrument<\/li>\n<li>Developing survey research questions<\/li>\n<li>Defining the survey sample<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing survey responses<\/li>\n<li>Creating narratives and visualizations of survey results<\/li>\n<li>Matching administrative data to responses for survey trend reporting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What to Expect<\/h2>\n<p>This service\u00a0is available during normal business hours.\u00a0 Each request is evaluated in conjunction with other\u00a0University initiatives and\u00a0institutional priorities to determine level of support and timeline.<\/p>\n<h2>Requirements<\/h2>\n<p>Review Boston University\u2019s\u00a0Institutional Review Board\u00a0(IRB) policies to determine whether the project will require IRB approval. See <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/researchsupport\/profile\/institutional-review-board-irb\/\">Charles River Campus IRB<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/irb\/\">BU Medical Campus IRB for details<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"GettingStarted\">Getting Started<\/h2>\n<p>Submit a ticket to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/contact\/\">Analytical Services &amp; Institutional Research<\/a> and a member of our team will get in touch for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analytical Service &#038; Institutional Research provides consulting services and assistance with campus survey development for a wide range of audiences and topics. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":0,"parent":128334,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131471,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128372\/revisions\/131471"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}