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Lab Project Survey Administration Instructions

Step-By-Step Instructions for Survey Administration in Person and Online (Part of Phase 2)

A. In Person Administration

You may administer the survey in person to groups such as a Sunday School class, a group of family members, friends, coworkers, and so on AS LONG AS their anonymity can be assured. This means that you, as the researcher, cannot pair results with any one individual, and no identifying information of any kind must appear on the survey. If administering the survey in person, follow these steps:

1. Download the survey form from the PSYC 355 Course Content Assignment Instructions area; print as many copies as you think you will need.

2. Ask for volunteers who are at least 15 years old who would like to participate in a short anonymous survey; be sure that they have a quiet area, a writing surface, and a writing utensil. It is asked that you NOT administer this survey to strangers (for example, at a shopping mall) as this would require additional training and procedures.

3. Read the written disclosure and directions at the top of the survey aloud to participant(s). For your benefit, they are repeated here:

Disclosure: I am asking you to complete this survey as part of the requirements for my Statistics in Psychology course. Your answers will remain completely anonymous. No personal information about you will be linked to this survey. Do not put your name or any other identifying information on the survey. The results of this survey will be used only for educational purposes and will not be published or released to the public. You must be 15 years old or older in order to complete this survey.

Directions: For the following questions, mark the answers that most reflect your understanding of general Christian belief.

4. Ask if there are any questions and then give the instructions to begin.

5. When participants have completed the survey, instruct them to fold it in half and place it in a large envelope that you will have on hand. Thank them for their participation.

If you have any questions regarding these procedures, contact your instructor.

B. Online Administration

Online administration of the survey requires creating a free account on www.surveymonkey.com. This web service will ensure that your surveys are submitted anonymously and can reach people through one of several ways. You may choose to either email people a link to your online survey, or you may choose to post your survey link on Facebook (or both). Administering your survey online requires more time at the beginning in that you must create the survey on surveymonkey yourself (using the following instructions), but it may save time and ultimately gain many more responses than the in-person method if carried out correctly. It is also excellent practice for future research projects as online surveys are used quite often.

Creating the Online Survey:

1. Download the survey form from the PSYC 355 Course Content Assignment Instructions area. You may want to print it out or leave it open on your computer. You will need to refer to it in order to create your survey.

2. Go to www.surveymonkey.com and set up a free account. On the home page under “Basic Plan”, click “Sign Up FREE.” It will take you through the steps of creating a username and password.

3. Once your account is set up, it may take you through a short survey yourself; then, you will eventually see the option to “Create Survey.” When you click on this button, it takes you to a dialogue box. In this box, be sure to select “Create a New Survey.” Type in the survey title you see on the survey form (Survey of Popular Belief). Under “Category,” choose “Community.” Then, click “Let’s Go!”

4. The next screen that appears is where you will begin to enter the questions and answer choices for the survey. The survey will appear all on one page, so there will be no need to add pages.

5. In the left hand menu under “Builder,” choose “Multiple Choice” as a question type. Hover over the choice and you will see a box appear that says “Add.” Click on “Add.”

6. Type in the text of the first question exactly as it appears on your downloaded survey form (be sure the “Edit” tab is selected). There is no need to type in the question number; the program will add that for you. The first text box will look like this: I believe in a personal God.

7. In the text boxes under “Answers,” you will add the question response choices one by one into their own text box. First, be sure to delete any extra responses that appear by default by clicking on the red “X” until there is only one text box that appears. Delete any default text that may appear; then, type in the first answer choice and click the green “+” button. Continue in the same way: type the second answer choice in the new text box that appears and so on until you have added all five choices. Type them on the survey form exactly as they appear below:

Strongly agree

Agree

Neither agree nor disagree

Disagree

Strongly disagree

8. Click “Save” to save the completed question. If you need to make any changes, click “Edit” (this will appear when you hover over a question in the survey). You do not need to change any items under the other tabs (“Options”, “Logic,” etc.).

9. After you finish the first question, go back to the Multiple Choice button on the left and click “Add” as you did before. This will add a second question. Complete questions 2–9 as you did the first one.

10. For question 10, choose the question type “Single Textbox.” Delete any default wording and then type the question text in as usual. Click on the “Options” tab for the question. Click in the checkbox next to “Validate Answer for a Specific Format” and then select “a whole number” under “Answer should be.” Set the limits to between “0” and “400”. Then, click “Save.” The question will appear with a single textbox underneath it where respondents can enter their number for times attending church as a whole number between 0 and 400.

11. After you have added all of the questions, click on “Done” at the bottom of the dialogue box. This will save your survey. You may now preview your survey if you wish by clicking the “Preview and Test” button.

When you are ready to post your survey, click on the big blue “Next” button at the top right of the working area.

Sending and Administering the Online Survey:

There are several options available through surveymonkey for getting your survey out to people near and far. The two methods recommended for this course are creating a survey web link and/or posting your survey on Facebook.

When you finish creating your survey, click on the “Next” button as mentioned above. This will take you to a menu of choices where the first one listed is the web link method.

1. Web Link Method: Surveymonkey automatically creates a web link for your survey that is reserved just for you and your respondents. You will see this when you get to the page with the menu as it is the default choice. A text box appears that contains the web link to your survey (it will begin with http://). You can then copy and paste this web link into an email that you can send to as many people as you like. These instructions must appear somewhere in your email: I am asking you to complete this survey as part of the requirements for my Statistics in Psychology course. Your answers will remain completely anonymous. No personal information about you will be linked to this survey. Please do not put your name or any other identifying information on the survey. The results of this survey will only be used for educational purposes and will not be published or released to the public. You can personalize the email if you would like (e.g., mention which course you are taking at which university, etc.).

Respondents simply click on the link, complete the survey, and click “Submit” when they are done. The results automatically post to your surveymonkey account.

2. Facebook Method:

a) You can embed the link directly into your Facebook page by scrolling down to “More Ways to Send” and clicking on “Facebook.”

b) A new page will appear titled Facebook Wall Collector, previewing what your Facebook post will look like. Click on the “Edit Message” button and add the following text after the sentence “Your feedback is important”: I am asking you to complete this survey as part of the requirements for my Statistics in Psychology course. Your answers will remain completely anonymous. No personal information about you will be linked to this survey. This must appear in the Facebook post.

c) Click “Save Changes” and then click on “Post to Facebook”; follow any other instructions that appear. Your survey link must appear on your Facebook page.

You are almost done! Regardless of the collection method you’ve chosen, you must now set your survey settings to allow a maximum number of responses. On the collector page (under the “Collect Responses” tab [where you probably already are]), there is a blue menu to the left of the page. Click on the choice labeled “Change Settings.” Under “Allow Multiple Responses,” click “Yes”; under “Allow responses to be edited,” click the first “Yes” (that allows answers to be changed but does NOT allow respondents to re-enter once they are finished). Under “Display Survey Results,” click “No.” Scroll to the bottom under “Save IP address in results” and click “No.” Then, go back to the top of the page and click “Save Settings” (on the right). Your survey is complete, and you may log out.

You may choose to use both of the above methods (email and Facebook) to reach as many people as possible. If you have any questions or encounter any problems, please contact your professor. The surveymonkey.com website has a Help menu and plenty of tutorials if you need them. Finally, please refer to the general lab outline in addition to this document when completing this phase. Happy data collecting!

Lab Project Overview and Instructions

It is very important that students of statistics know how to choose the correct analysis for a given research question, collect the data, run the test, interpret the results, and present them in written form. This lab will require you to apply what you have learned over several weeks in the course, collect data, choose and run the correct analysis, interpret results, and present the findings in a short Results section in current APA style. (Results sections are covered in both of the course texts within each chapter.)

The lab is divided into phases, with certain tasks due at different times throughout the course. It is very important to turn work in on time at each of the due dates, as the later sections of the lab depend on work performed in the earlier sections.

Research Question and Background

An excerpt (Quarles, 2011) from the Baptist Message website presents selected results of a survey given to entering college freshmen every year at Louisiana College. This instrument measures the orthodoxy of Christian beliefs, or, in other words, how well a person understands the basic doctrines of the Christian faith. Quarles comments that, although many students who take the survey report attending church regularly, the number of students who understand basic Christian doctrine is surprisingly low. In this lab, the intention is to research this issue further by directly examining the following research question: Is there a relationship between frequency of church attendance and the level of understanding of basic Christian doctrine?

Directions: For the following questions, mark the answers that most reflect your understanding of general Christian beliefs.

1. I believe in a personal God.

· Strongly agree

· Agree

· Neither agree nor disagree

· Disagree

· Strongly disagree

2. Jesus Christ was God in a full sense.

· Strongly agree

· Agree

· Neither agree nor disagree

· Disagree

· Strongly disagree

3. Jesus Christ really rose from the dead.

· Strongly agree

· Agree

· Neither agree nor disagree

· Disagree

· Strongly disagree

4. People are born good.

· Strongly agree

· Agree

· Neither agree nor disagree

· Disagree

· Strongly disagree

5. Jesus Christ’s death was a sacrifice that paid for the sins of humankind.

· Strongly agree

· Agree

· Neither agree nor disagree

· Disagree

· Strongly disagree

LAB PROJECT SURVEY

Disclosure: I am asking you to complete this survey as part of the requirements for my statistics in a psychology course. Your answers will remain completely anonymous. No personal information about you will be linked to this survey. Please do not put your name or any other identifying information on the survey. The results of this survey will be used only for educational purposes and will not be published or released to the public. You must be 15 years old or older in order to complete this survey.