This Guide is intended as a starting point for your research and lists a selection of material. You will need to look beyond the resources listed here to identify further reading. Additional material (including more ebooks) can be found in the Education Ebooks Collection, or Sage Research Methods and in scholarly ejournal articles sourced using bibliographic databases.
See the Surveys and Questionnaires Sections of the Education Ebooks Collection for additional reading
The following sections of the Library will contain material on this subject:
301/01 – Social science research methodology
370/78 – Educational research
Glasgow, P.A. (2003) Fundamentals of survey research methodology. McLean, VA: Mitre Corporation.
Bauer, K.W. (2004) Conducting longitudinal studies. New Directions for Institutional Research, issue 121 (Special issue: Overcoming survey research problems), 75-90.
Coomber, R. (1997) Using the internet for survey research, Sociological Research Online, 2 (2)
Krosnik, J.A.A. (1999) Survey research. Annual Review of Psychology, 50(1), 537-567.
Porter, S. R (2004). Pros and cons of paper and electronic surveys. New Directions for Institutional Research, issue 121 (Special issue: Overcoming survey research problems), 91-97.
Porter, S. R (2004). Raising response rates: what works? New Directions for Institutional Research, issue 121 (Special issue: Overcoming survey research problems), 5-21.
Porter, S.R. and Whitcomb, M.E. (2004) Understanding the effect of prizes on response rates. New Directions for Institutional Research, issue 121 (Special issue: Overcoming survey research problems), 51-62.
Porter, S.R., Whitcomb, M.E. and Weitzer, W.H. (2004) Multiple surveys of students and survey fatigue. New Directions for Institutional Research, issue 121 (Special issue: Overcoming survey research problems), 63-73.
Presser, S., Couper, M. P., Lessler, J. T., Martin, E., Martin, J., Rothgeb, J. M., & Singer, E. (2004). Methods for testing and evaluating survey questions. Public Opinion Quarterly, 68(1), 109-130.
Pryor, J.H. (2004) Conducting surveys on sensitive topics. New Directions for Institutional Research, issue 121 (Special issue: Overcoming survey research problems), 39-50.
Shih, T.-H., & Fan, X. (2009). Comparing response rates in e-mail and paper surveys: A meta-analysis. Educational Research Review, 4(1), 26-40.
Umbach, P.D. (2004) Web surveys: best practices. New Directions for Institutional Research, issue 121 (Special issue: Overcoming survey research problems), 23-38.
Remember that you can search for scholarly journal articles by subject using a specialist bibliographic database. Further support with this can be found on the Literature Searching Guide. |