Reminder Effectiveness on Two Web Questionnaire Surveys for Students

Tetsuya Oishi; Noriko Kuwano; Eiichi Takata; Masao Mori

doi:10.52731/ijirm.v1.i2.116

Tetsuya Oishi Tokyo Institute of Technology http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9505-7250
Noriko Kuwano Kyushu University
Eiichi Takata Kobe University
Masao Mori Tokyo Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52731/ijirm.v1.i2.116

Keywords: Institutional Research, Web Questionnaire Survey

Abstract

In Kyushu University, we had held web questionnaire surveys twice to obtain some educational information of the students. We reminded the students to answer the questions certainly during the term of each questionnaire survey. The students are reminded to answer the questions not only by us but also by the faculty. As a result, the response rate of the first questionnaire survey was 36.5%. Moreover, the rate of the second time was 40.6%. In this paper, we explain our method of these questionnaire surveys and the reason why the response rate was high.

References

J.L. Saupe, “Functions of Insitutional Research, 2nd Edition”, published by Association for Institutional Research, 1990.

Go Hagihara, Hiroyuki Ota, and Satoshi Fujii, “An experimental study about the survey response rate”, Basic study of efficient strategies to raise the participation rate of Mobility Management, 2006.

Noboru Ohsumi, “Internet Surveys: A Review of Several Experimental Results - Applying Data Science Approach to the Exploration of Internet Survey -”, The Behaviormetric Society of Japan, Vol.29, No.1, pp. 20-44, 2002

Osamu Yoshimura and Noboru Ohsumi, “Quality of Internet Survey”, ISM Symposium, pp. 15-32, 2003

Tetsuya Oishi, “Effects of reminders in questionnaire survey”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Institutional Research and Institutional Management 2014, Sep. 2014.

Masao Mori, Tetsuya Oishi, and Eiichi Takata, “Effects of reminders in web questionnaire survey for students”, Proceedings of the 30th annual conference of Japan society of educational information, Oct. 2014.

Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Toshiyuki Nishimori, and Atsushi Ando, “Results of Questionnaire about New Curriculum for Freshmen in 2006”, J. Higher Education and Lifelog Learning 15, pp99-112, 2007.

Don A. Dillman, “Mail and telephone survey: the total design method”, 1978

Satoshi Taoka and Toshimasa Watanabe, “A Web-Based Questionnaire and Its Evaluation of Class-Assessment-by-Students”, The Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers D, Vol J97-D, No.5, pp. 1024-1034, 2014.

Koichi Higuchi and Miki Nakai, “The practice of web surveys using free software”, Ritsumeikan Social Science Review, Vol.45, No.3, pp.69-82, Dec. 2009.

Koichiro Kakiyama and Akira Harada, “Attempt Concerning Reliability Improvement of the Internet Questionnaire - Application of Mouse Tracking -”, Proceedings of the 52nd annual conference of JSSD, pp. 236-237, 2005

Yoichi Murase, “Electronic Survey”, http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/ BV7y-mrs/, 2006 (cited 2014-08-12)

Kazunori Yamamori and Risa Takagi, “Development of anonymous questionnaire system that can pursue unanswered person”, Departmental Bulletin Paper of Mie University, pp. 25-31, 2011

Kyushu University “Report of students’ life 2007”, Mar. 2008.

Kyushu University “Report of students’ life 2011”, Aug. 2012.

LimeSurvey, http://www.limesurvey.org/