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Graduate Degrees OfferedM.S.; Ph.D. |
Survey Research and Methodology
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Description of ProgramThe Survey Research and Methodology (SRAM) program offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees and a certificate program. All three are very much cross-disciplinary. Areas of study include: cognitive survey research, intermediate and advanced data analysis, survey sampling, study design and management, data collection methods, instrument design, and testing and assessment, as well as cross-cultural survey research and methods. In addition, master's and doctoral students may choose from a wide range of minor area of emphasis.The M.S. program is designed to provide students with comprehensive expertise in survey methodology, equipping them to conduct survey research and analysis in a wide range of fields in the public and private sectors, including health, education, media, official statistics, and polling. The M.S. program is a two-year nonthesis program which includes an internship with an external organization, agency, or company. M.S. students also receive grounding in comparative (cross-cultural) research. The Ph.D. program offers research opportunities in areas such as data analysis, social and cognitive survey research, questionnaire design, survey error and the "total survey error paradigm", nonresponse, data collection challenges, and cross-cultural and cross-national survey research. The program is designed as a four-year program and requires a dissertation of original work that advances knowledge in the field of survey methodology. Ph.D. graduates are likely to have opportunities within academic settings, in government, business, and nonprofit sectors. The SRAM program offers funding for research assistantships to promising M.S. and Ph.D. applicants and special opportunities exist to receive a scholarship funded by the Gallup Organization in Omaha. |
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Faculty and Research
Ancillary Faculty | ||
| Dwayne Ball | Database Marketing; Market Research; New Product Development; Customer Relationship Marketing | |
| Rafael De Ayala | Item Response Theory; Hierarchical Linear Models; Applied and Theoretical Psychometrics; Computer Adaptive Testing | |
| John Hibbing | Legislative Politics; Public Opinion; Evolutionary Psychology in Politics | |
| Dan Hoyt | Mental Health; Research Methods; Deviance; Family | |
| Elizabeth Theiss-Morse | Political Psychology; Public Opinion; Political Behavior | |
Core Faculty | ||
| Robert Belli | Role of Memory in Applied Settings; Survey Response | |
| Janet Harkness | Comparative Survey Methods; Questionnaire Design and Adaptation; Discourse Analysis | |
| Allan McCutcheon | Categorical Data Analysis; Survey Research Methods and Design; Cross-National and Comparative Survey Research | |
| Kristen Olson | Survey Methodology, Interviewer Effects, Nonresponse and Measurement Errors | |
| Jolene Smyth | Nonresponse; Questionnaire Design; Gender; Family | |
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