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    "Best Practices and Models for Sustainability for Robust Cyberinfrastructure Software” - Survey Dataset and Analyses
    (2014-02-14) Wernert, Julie; Wernert, Eric; Fischer, Jeremy; Terhune, Heather; Bowers, Ashley; Miller, Therese; Stewart, Craig A.
    This document represents the data (and associated analysis) collected in the 2012 Software Sustainability Survey, conducted as part of the National Science Foundation EAGER grant (NSF Award #1147606, PI Craig Stewart, et al.) entitled “Best Practices and Models for Sustainability for Robust Cyberinfrastructure Software.” The survey aimed to identify the best practices and models required for developing, deploying, and supporting robust, sustainable cyberinfrastructure software, as well as to identify key factors users consider in software adoption. Further, the survey attempted to aggregate attitudes about the importance of sustained software in scientific research.
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    Introduction to Questionnaire Design
    (Indiana University Workshop in Methods, 2013-11-08) Giroux, Stacey; Yahng, Lilian; Bowers, Ashley
    A well-designed and tested survey questionnaire is one of the most powerful tools that researchers in education, health, business and public policy, and the social sciences have to obtain accurate and reliable measurements of a wide range of attitudes, opinions, beliefs, and behaviors. With technological advances in how data are captured, exciting new horizons for survey measurement and assessment of the quality of those measurements are emerging. In this workshop, we review best practices in the development and testing of survey questionnaires that may be administered using web, mail, telephone and/or face-to-face data collection methods. We will provide numerous practical examples of how to design and evaluate survey questions and how to implement commonly used testing procedures, including in-depth cognitive interviews and field pretests.