Social Norms Surveys Online

Web based surveys have been designed to support social norms programing in college and secondary school environments. Specific college student-athlete and greek surveys are available to support sub-population programming. Web surveys provide a secure, low cost, rapid data collection solution for social norms programming that provides for greater accuracy through real-time validation. Students can complete surveys in 10-15 minutes.

Features of our web-based surveys with sample user interface screens are shown on this link (Click here).

You can see some examples below of results from surveys that have been administered, run some sample surveys, and learn how you can use these surveys in your program.

Sample Secondary School Results using Web-Based Survey Instrument

Recent research on thousands of middle and high school students from across the nation shows clear and pervasive misperceptions of alcohol, tobacco, other drug, health, and safety norms. Moreover, the pattern of emergence of these misperceptions by grade clearly point toward key developmental periods for strategic prevention intervention.

NEW! A detailed analysis of survey responses from over 28,000 secondary students from 50 middle and high schools in eight regionally diverse states was recently completed and presented at the 2005 International Social Norms Conference in Toronto, Canada. The presentaton abstract and results handouts can be downloaded here (abstract and results).

Some additional sample results can be seen by viewing the links below:

• Alcohol Norms and Perceptions among middle and high school students

• Tobacco Norms and Perceptions among middle and high school students

• Illicit Drug Norms and Perceptions among middle and high school students

Web-Based Survey Instruments for Secondary and College Populations

• NEW Secondary School ATOD Instrument (Enter test for the username and test for the password at the logon screen)
  
  Survey focusing on ATOD norms, healthy life styles, school safety, and traffic safety. Both English and Spanish versions of the survey can be accessed here (instructions for survey administration).

• NEW Secondary School Bullying Instrument (Enter test for the username and test for the password at the logon screen)
  
  Survey focusing on Bullying norms and perceptions. Both English and Spanish versions of the survey can be accessed here (instructions for survey administration). Click here to see some sample results.

• NEW College Greek Instrument (Enter test for the username and test for the password at the logon screen):
  
  Survey focusing on ATOD norms and perceptions, greek organization involvement, health and well-being, co-curricular activities, academic interests/accomplishments, post-graduation plans (instructions for survey administration).
  
  
• College Student-Athlete Instrument (Enter test for the username and test for the password at the logon screen):
  
  Survey focusing on ATOD norms and perceptions, athletic involvement, health and well-being, co-curricular activities, academic interests/accomplishments, post-graduation plans (instructions for survey administration). No cost special offer through April, 2007!
  
  

How to Use one of our Web-Based Survey Instruments

Here are the steps that you need to take to use one of our web-based survey instruments in your program.

• Contact one of the project directors (H. Wesley Perkins, 315-781-3437 or David W. Craig, 315-781-3611) to discuss your specific application and the time you wish to conduct the survey.
• Discuss with a project director any customized questions you need for your programming beyond those questions already present in our survey instrument for your application.
• Obtain a data disclosure agreement form and have it signed by an administrator from your institution. (Click here for secondary school disclosure agreement form. Click here for college disclosure agreement form.)
• Setup a Schedule for survey administration for your population.

Advantages of

Web-Based Surveys

• low cost
• rapid data return
• greater accuracy through real-time validation
• students can complete surveys in 10-15 minutes
• support for spanish-speaking students
• customizable questions with no reprinting costs
• security and anonymity controlled by timed usernames and passwords
• increased data integrity and program efficacy through greater student participation
• facilitate ongoing program assessment

page last modified: 6/26/2006

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