Not only can surveys be very powerful, but they can also increase awareness about a cause you care about. Your survey results can give you information about what people think and believe about specific issues/topics.
- Choose a topic you think people should know about. Be sure you know what information you want to gather from the survey.
- Check out sample surveys to help you make an awesome one.
- Questionnaires and interviews are two surveys to choose from.
Type of Survey Questionnaires Interviews Explanation and examples. Specific questions with a choice of answers. Example:
Should animals be tested on?- yes
- no
- maybe
Less specific questions that allow people to respond freely. Example: - Do you think animals should be tested on?
- Are there any benefits from it?
- On a scale from 1-10, how against animal testing are you?
Why it is good - Can be handed out and collected later.
- It doesn’t need a lot of people to do.
- Easy to summarize.
- Involves people more.
- Allows range of answers to be recorded.
- Insures responses on all surveys taken.
Why it is not so good - People might fill it out as a joke.
- Questions might be confusing (and people won’t fill it out)
- Takes more people and time.
- Harder to summarize general responses.
- Get friends, classmates, teachers, or even parents to help you create and get results for your survey.
- Here are some tips on creating the survey:
- Keep the survey as short as possible, asking only those questions that will provide the information you need.
- Use a casual, conversational style, making the questions easy for almost anyone to understand.
- Use multiple-choice questions whenever possible.
- Structure the survey so that the questions follow a logical order – i.e. from general to specific.
- Start with information about who is taking the survey. Example:
- Describe yourself: Teacher – Student – Staff -- Other
- If you answered student, what grade are you in: 5-7 8-10 11-12
- There are various types of questions you can use:
- Multiple choice questions with 3 to 5 possible answers given.
- Ranking scale questions.
1 2 3 4 5 strongly
disagreedisagree neutral agree strongly
agree
- Before you go live, test the survey on a few people to determine if your questions were easily understood and easy to answer.
- Distribute your survey in school or in your community. Get the results and summarize them in one page. Bring your survey to a school board or town hall meeting (depending on what your survey is about) and share your results with people there.
Tell us about your project. GO [4]
Where:
Issues:
Animals [11]
Animal Cruelty [12]
Animal Homelessness [13]
Animal Testing [14]
Endangered Species [15]
Factory Farms [16]
Puppy Mills [17]
Child Abuse [19]
Cyber Bullying [20]
Dating Abuse [21]
Gang Violence [22]
Gun Control [23]
Hate Crimes [24]
School Violence [25]
Sexual Assault [26]
Disasters [27]
Fires [29]
Floods [30]
Hurricanes [31]
Tsunamis [32]
Discrimination [33]
Affirmative Action [34]
Disability Rights [35]
Environmental Racism [36]
LGBT Rights [37]
Education [40]
Arts in Education [41]
Financial Education [43]
High School Dropouts [44]
Music Education [45]
Sex Education [46]
Environment [47]
Climate Change [48]
Energy Conservation [49]
eWaste [50]
Organic Food [51]
Pollution [52]
Recycling [53]
Sustainability [54]
Water Conservation [55]
Global Health [57]
Global Poverty [58]
Homelessness [59]
Hunger [60]
Labor Rights [61]
Millennium Dev Goals [62]
Human Rights [63]
Child Soldiers [64]
Free Speech [65]
Genocide [66]
Human Trafficking [67]
Immigration [68]
Reproductive Rights [69]
Sweatshops [70]
Voting [71]
Women's Rights [72]
Our Troops [74]
Veteran Homelessness [75]
Alcohol Abuse [77]
Asthma [78]
Body Image [79]
Cancer [80]
Diabetes [81]
Drug Abuse [82]
Eating Disorders [83]
Fitness [84]
Healthy Living [85]
HIV and AIDS [86]
Sexual Health [87]
Smart Driving [88]
Smoking [89]
Steroid Use [90]
Suicide Prevention [91]
Teen Pregnancy [92]
Who: