Draft a survey for FAU Student Biking Scenario

Designing an effective survey requires as much art as a skill. The more practice you get, the more you will come to appreciate the nuances of survey design. The process of designing a survey involves numerous iterations, with input from multiple members of a research team or sometimes from an advisory panel. Draft surveys are usually pre-tested and revised before they are administered. In the end, every little detail potentially matters and may contribute to measurement error, non-response bias, or both.

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Instructions & Scenario and refer to your PPT slides to learn more about designing an effective survey. After reading the scenario, please answer the following:

FAU Student Biking Scenario

Rumor has it that students at FAU are biking less than they used to. This might be happening for any number of reasons.

Hypotheses include:

Boca Raton has grown so students are living farther from campus (or outside of Boca)

Students are biking less as children and are less comfortable biking when they get to Boca

Students are working harder than ever and don't have the time to bike

Biking is not seen as socially desirable as it used to be.

You must create a questionnaire to measure if any of these factors are influencing the level of biking among FAU college students. It's not possible to go back in time to conduct a longitudinal study to see how these factors have changed, or even to see if biking levels have in fact changed. But it is possible to conduct a cross-sectional study that determines the relative importance of these factors in explaining current levels of biking among students.

1. Students must Write a question to quantitatively measure the dependent (outcome) variable.
2. Write one question to quantitatively measureeachof the hypotheses listed in the scenario.
3. Are there anyothervariables that might influence the level of biking? What else might you ask to find out?
4. How would you pretest your survey?
5. How would you administer your survey - mailed, group, phone, in-person interview, or electronic? What are the pros and cons of this approach?