Dear Ohio Colleagues,

We're putting a panel or discussion group together for the upcoming OAIRP 
meeting at Wilmington College in March. I'm writing to ask for your input 
and participation. The topic is, for lack of a better title, On-line 
Surveys: Best and Worst Practices.

As an example of worst practices, we could discuss the proliferation of 
on-line surveys done by anybody and everybody.  Dr. Joni (Schaller) Wadley 
from OU has agreed to help lead the panel or discussion, based on our 
experience here, in which we are witnessing an ever-increasing number of 
sample surveys by different units, many of which are sampling the same 
students and getting poor response rates.

Are there potential panelists in Ohio who have this problem? Are there 
potential panelists who have helped solve this problem? Are there potential 
panelists who have some good ideas about this issue but are having trouble 
drawing attention to it at their home campus? Has anybody actually solved 
this problem through good administrative coordination and/or technical 
solutions?

Under the topic of best practices, is there a process or product that you 
would like to profile as a panelist in a group, but don't have the time to 
prepare a solo presentation?

If you're interested, please let me know. We're hoping to put together a 
candid discussion for the upcoming meeting, and we need a couple more 
people to help lead the conversation based on their experience.

Thanks,
Mike


Michael Williford, Ph.D.
Associate Provost for Institutional Research and Enrollment Planning
Associate Professor, Counseling and Higher Education
Ohio University
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