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2011 MISO Survey Analysis

Kevin Creamer — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:37:44 +0000

With the 2011 survey cycle now complete, the MISO Survey has a total of 12,842 faculty responses, 18,324 staff responses, and 23,048 student respondents from 2005-2011. This rich data set will allow the MISO Survey team to perform new analysis of trends that affect library and IT organizations.

All of the 2011 participating institutions have now received their survey data. In June, the Survey team will release the Excel workbooks that allow participating institutions to see statistically significant trends in comparison to other schools or dynamically created cohorts. Institutions that have participated in the Survey more than once will also be able to track trends over time.

2010 Survey Response Rates

Kevin Creamer — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:22:00 +0000

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.

2009 Workbooks Now Available

Kevin Creamer — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:21:15 +0000

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.