Survey Design & Support
Need a web survey for your research or coursework?
The Academic Technology Center (ATC) has been supporting web surveys for 20+ years. We've learned a thing or two about what makes them succeed (and fail)! We therefore STRONGLY encourage you to review and follow these brief Top Ten Survey Design Tips before conducting any web survey.
Qualtrics is our chosen survey platform and is available for use by faculty, students and staff.
If your survey requires personally-identifiable information, contact Bentley’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) to determine whether it needs IRB approval. If you are asking for personally-identifiable contact information simply to provide an incentive for taking the survey, consider linking to a second, unrelated "survey" at the end that will store this information separately - and anonymously - from your survey responses database.
Excellent references for survey design:
https://www.pewresearch.org/our-methods/u-s-surveys/writing-survey-questions/