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Rideshare Survey
Research Questions:
- How effective are the rideshare program and offered incentives for
carpooling and walking/biking to work now?
- What are the impediments to carpooling? Do physical restrictions, mental
attitudes, lack of information, or other restriction limit some people from
carpooling?
- How many members of the staff and faculty are willing to carpool, if
impediments are overcome?
- What kind of incentives or improvements would help to overcome
impediments?
Strategy:
- Prepare a survey to send to faculty and staff.
- Get survey proofread and approved for distribution
- Test survey on two groups: the Sustainable Campus Task Force and among a
classroom of students, for example.
- Correct any errors, consider any suggested changes, etc.
- Get a final proofreading of the survey
- Distribute the survey to all faculty and staff—be sure to include easy
instructions for returning the survey to you, a request to return in a
reasonable amount of time, and information on whom to contact with
questions.
- Be sure to keep track of how many were distributed.
- Build an excel (or other program) file to tally the results into.
- One or two weeks before survey is due to come back to you, send a
reminder notice to all who received the survey.
- Collect the returned surveys and tally as they come in.
- Set a cut-off date for accepting returned surveys.
- Calculate results— What was the return rate? How many people answered
each questions which way?
- Analyze: Do the results allow you to draw any conclusions or answer any
of the research questions?
- Analyze: what kind of suggestions can you make to improve the rideshare
program and encourage more carpooling, biking, and walking to campus based
on results of the survey?
- Report: Summarize conclusions, articulate suggestions, etc.
- Report: Present to Sustainable Campus Task Force. Give a copy of written
results to Campus Safety department with results and suggestions
highlighted.
Additional:
Have you answered the research questions? What further questions arose from
this study? Suggest: Should additional studies be undertaken? If so, with the
same method, or with another method? Should the survey be run again in a year?
How can results for future years be compared to this year?
Be sure to detail your study methods so they can be replicated if necessary.
Research case studies: What other schools have undertaken such a study? What
were the results? What kinds of incentives are offered at other schools? Are
they successful?
Keep bibliography and details of sources (make sure someone else can follow your
paper trail! How could someone conduct a follow up survey? What if someone
wanted to contact another school such as the one you found for the case study?)
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