Breakdown of a Survey Project
Understanding the Components of a Project
Stages of a Survey Project
Understanding the Survey Audience
The Impact of Poor Design
Survey Project Best Practices
Survey Design Best Practices
1. Set Your Project Objectives
To write a problem statement, start with your goals
Brainstorming to write problem statements
2. Make Every Question Count
3. Plan the Order of Your Questions
Demographic Questions Placement
4. Limit Survey Length
5. Know Good from Bad Question Wording
6. Keep it Simple for Respondents
Summary of Survey Design Best Practices
Consider the stakeholders that will be engaging with the report
Plan and design your surveys before building them in the platform
Apply the following best practices
Challenge

Survey Design Best Practices

There are six best practices to follow in producing great survey designs. In this section, you will learn what they are and the guidelines to follow.

Before building a survey in the Qualtrics Platform, you should plan the survey at a high level outside the platform to give yourself space to incorporate best practices.

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This will help you maximize the value derived from the survey project, reduce the probability of errors, and elevate the decision-makers using the data. It will also provide you with a structure to reference and facilitate the platform build process.

This course takes you through the best practice recommendations for planning and designing your survey.

The best practices you will learn include:

  1. Set your research objectives

  2. Make every question count

  3. Plan the order of your questions

  4. Limit survey length

  5. Effective question-wording

  6. Keep it simple for respondents

At the end of this course, you will receive a summary of best practices and a challenge to practice applying these concepts.