June-July: Creating Effective Surveys

An Infopeople online course, June 18 to July 15, 2013

Surveys are one of the most popular and well-known ways to collect information about what people think, feel, and do.  Conducting a good survey is more complicated than just asking people questions.  It involves asking the right questions, of the right people, in the right way. This course will help you to:

·         Develop appropriate sampling techniques

·         Create a question pool and response categories

·         Understand the benefits and drawbacks of popular online survey services  

·         Calculate simple statistics and create simple charts and graphs using Excel

·         Develop a simple survey report

Instructor: Jennifer Sweeney

Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and Infopeople Partners, $150 for all others.

For a complete course description and to register go to http://infopeople.org/training/creating-effective-surveys.