Surveys in the real world: What works and what doesn’t | AIFS

This webinar is the first in a three-part series on collecting and using evidence in the context of Australian child and family services.

In our first episode, Sharnee Moore, Senior Research Fellow and manager of the Evidence and Evaluation Support team, sat down with Michelle Harrison, Senior Research Specialist, at the Parenting Research Centre, to discuss how to use surveys to collect data.

Child and family services are required to collect data about their programs for a variety of reasons. These include monitoring and evaluation, identifying areas for improvement, fulfilling funding or contract requirements and showcasing the impact of their work in the community.

While surveys are a commonly used form of data collection, they can be tricky to get right. This webinar will provide a brief overview of surveys in real world practice contexts – when they work well, the key challenges to think about, and top tips for developing and administering them.

This webinar will give you:

• an understanding of the purpose and benefits of using surveys in the child and family sector
• an overview of the key principles of effective survey design, including question types and structure
• insights into how to avoid the common pitfalls and biases in survey design using real world practice examples.

Target Audience

This webinar is aimed at practitioners and managers working in child and family services who are interested in using surveys to collect data to inform monitoring or evaluation of programs.

This webinar has been developed as part of the Evidence & Evaluation Support project at AIFS, which is funded by the Department of Social Services.

Register here