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Practicum in Survey Research Techniques
Course #: SOCIOL 664
Description:
This course offers students hands-on experience in planning and conducting a survey, focusing on sampling, questionnaire development, and interviewing techniques. Students will put survey best practices into action in the development of a survey instrument by planning and moderating focus groups. They will evaluate questions by conduction cognitive interviews and completing behavior coding of recorded interviews. Students also participate in a sample listing exercise in the Boston area and conduct face-to-face pretest interviews.
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