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2010 Survey Response Rates

April 12, 2010 by Kevin Creamer · Leave a Comment 

In 2010, the MISO Survey’s response rates for each campus population were quite good.  The student response rate, in particular, was far better than in past years.

Students

The MISO Survey is administered to a random stratified sample of 700 students at each institution.  In past years our response rate has been in the low 30%’s.  This year, 44.9% of our student population completed the Survey.  We’re especially proud of this year’s student response rate.  We attribute this success was largely to improvements in the Survey’s communication methodology.

Faculty and staff

The MISO Survey is administered to the entire faculty and staff population at each participating institution (with the exception of the library and technology staffs).  In 2010, 48.8% of the faculty population and 50.3% of our staff population responded to the Survey.

Response trends

Over the Survey’s 5 year lifespan, faculty and staff response rates have been consistently high.  Since 2008, we’ve achieved a marked increase in the response rate for students.

2006-2010 Response Rates

2009 Workbooks Now Available

June 23, 2009 by Kevin Creamer · Leave a Comment 

The 2009 MISO workbooks are now available.  These spreadsheets contain the means from each school for every question in the survey.

The workbooks are a great way to compare your school’s current results against earlier results.  You can also dynamically create a cohort of schools to compare against your most recent results.  Question type and service area filters allow you to quickly get to the information you’d like to study.  The worksheets calculate whether differences between the means are statistically significant, and cells are formatted to quickly show you higher and lower results, with the difference between the means also reported.

Workbooks for the faculty, student, and staff populations are available through the Survey Administration Page.  CIOs from any of our participating instititutions have access.

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