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This course will examine Survey Design. Surveys wield tremendous impact on decision-making and are becoming increasingly common when evaluating educational processes, conducting research, and in society more broadly. The major topics of the course will include defining constructs; creating items and item wording; response anchors; formatting surveys; and bolstering response rates. The course will also cover some basic design features of Qualtrics, a leading survey software system. Students do not need to have any previous experience with developing surveys to be successful in this course. The course is targeted toward 1) students who are actively adapting or developing survey measures for research projects and 2) students who are interested in professionally designing surveys. The course is more orientated toward collecting quantitative data, but only minimal knowledge of data analysis is needed.