Research Skills Tool

10 Easy Ways to Increase Response Rates for your Online Survey

Training Type: Research Skills Tool

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QuestionPro

1.Target your audience.

Consider a variety of sources for possible respondents. In addition to email mailing lists, for example, consider posting your survey to newsgroups and web communities.

2. Personalize your email invitations

Emails with a personal salutation result in increased response rates of at least five percent, and sometimes much higher. Send your email to "Dear Mr. Wright" rather than "Dear Valued Alumni."

3. Keep your email invitation short

Please keep your email invitation short and simple, with just one link - the one to the survey. Please be sure to explain the following: -

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Nursing Research Proposal Developmental

Training Type: Research Skills Tool

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Kaiser Permanente

Nurses and other healthcare professionals are constantly seeking tools as they gather, evaluate, and grade research and other evidence.

Various individuals within the SCAL Nursing Research Program have developed the following documents over the past several years. These tools cover a variety of applications, such as the definition of terms, application of statistical methods, and the review of qualitative/quantitative research. Please take the time to examine these useful tools and other research/EBP resource links.

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Critical appraisal: assessing research quality

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Social Care Institute for Excellence

One you have selected a range of journal papers and other evidence to guide your work, it is important to read through the material carefully to check that it is not only relevant to your research focus, but also trustworthy in its procedures and findings. As Rutter et al. (2010: 50) point out:

"The relevance of a study to the review topic, and the appropriateness of design to address the review question, are two aspects of quality; the integrity of the methods used in the study, and the confidence we can have in its findings, are others."

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What's New in the Canadian Common CV for CIHR Applicants

Training Type: Research Skills Tool

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CIHR

Review what's new in the Canadian Common CV application for previous CCV users.

Webcast: 7:20 minutes

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Canadian Common CV Tips and Tricks for CIHR Applicants

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CIHR

Review the tips and tricks for creating and submitting applicant CVs using the Canadian Common CV.

Webcast: 6:20 minutes

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The Art of Writing a CIHR Application

Training Type: Research Skills Tool

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Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Summaries of Application-Writing Tips

The following tips and insights are intended to assist applicants in writing a successful CIHR application, from the planning stages through writing and finalization.

Empower Yourself: Be Prepared!

Assess your Readiness to Apply
Review the Funding Opportunity for Critical Information
Don’t Wait Until the Last Minute

Application Content: Success is in the Details

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The Art of Writing Proposals

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Social Sciences Research Council

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Research Sidebar in Google Docs

Training Type: Research Skills Tool

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Google

Google Docs has a new feature that lets you find more information about some of the words from a document and also add content from the Web. The research sidebar can be enabled from the Tools menu or by using the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+R (Cmd +Opt+R for Mac). You can also select one or more words from the document, right click and select "Research" from the menu.

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Get More Out of Google

Training Type: Research Skills Tool

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9Gag

Here are some crucial tips for refining your Googling, as well as some other places to hunt down that last study you need for your thesis.

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Analyzing Data: Functions or Pivot Tables

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Excel Blog

Today’s author, Monica Poinescu, a Software Developer in Test on the Excel team, discusses two different approaches to analyzing data in Excel.

Edit: I've attached a file at the bottom of this blog that contains spreadsheets of the examples discussed in this post.

My earlier blog on the new Excel 2007 function SUMIFS spawned a very interesting discussion (thanks to everyone who posted comments there): when trying to analyze/aggregate data in a table, how do we decide whether to use functions versus PivotTables?

This blog outlines reasons to use one option or another.