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The resources below are a mixture of original resources developed by the Education Evaluation Core, resources developed by others, and scholarly publications. For copyright reasons, we cannot provide PDF files of journal articles. However, if you are a Boston University employee, you should be able to access all of the articles cited here through the BU library website<\/a>\u00a0after providing your log-in credentials.<\/p>\n

Research and Evaluation Planning<\/span><\/h4>\n

Developing an effective evaluation plan: a workbook<\/a><\/p>\n

Types of evaluation and types of evaluator<\/a><\/p>\n

Survey Design<\/span><\/h4>\n

How to create a bad survey instrument<\/a><\/p>\n

You can’t fix what you’ve spoiled by design: Developing survey instruments and collecting validity evidence<\/a><\/p>\n

Ten key things to consider when designing surveys<\/a><\/p>\n

Survey Data Collection<\/span><\/h4>\n

Through Boston University, employees have access to Qualtrics<\/a>. If you are interested in learning more about how to use Qualtrics, you can attend one of the trainings conducted by IT (a list of upcoming trainings can be found here<\/a>). Or, you can visit the Qualtrics website which offers great step-by-step instructions and screenshots, found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tips for improving survey response rate<\/a><\/p>\n

Quantitative Analysis<\/span><\/h4>\n

All Boston University employees have access to SPSS <\/a>for quantitative analysis.<\/p>\n

UCLA’s Institute for Digital Computing and Education (IDRE) offers excellent tutorials for data analysis in SAS, SPSS, R and Stata. Visit them here:
\nUCLA IDRE Data Analysis Tutorials<\/a><\/p>\n

Qualitative Analysis<\/span><\/h4>\n

All Boston University employees have access to NVivo <\/a>\u00a0for qualitative analysis.<\/p>\n

Developing Semi-Structured Interview Guides<\/a><\/p>\n

Approaches to Analyzing Qualitative Data<\/a><\/p>\n

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