Create a Draft

This task involves a multi-step process to address the underlying research or evaluation question of your eventual survey. Please follow the directions below1

  1. First download the following

  1. Open both files and review the variable names and descriptions in the codebook

  2. Fill out the following columns2

  • Item. Survey items in the order they will currently appear

  • ItemType. Question type as allowed by Qualtrics

  • Measure. Direct measure of the item

  • Latent. Indirect measure of a category

  1. After you have completed the draft, login to the WVU Qualtrics page, create a new survey, and construct an instrument that is a direct reflection of the skeleton

  2. Share your survey by enabling Collaboration3

  3. Fill out the Index column with the item number provided in Qualtrics. Consider auto-numbering your questions to renumber them in order

  4. Rename the document by following the submission guidelines, save it in xlsx format, and submit this document to eCampus

All incremental deliverables can be found on the main Tasks page


  1. These items assume that Qualtrics is used. If you are using another mode, please amend your responses to for the requirements of that platform ↩︎

  2. While not required at the current time, you are free to fill out any of the remaining columns as needed ↩︎

  3. Please disallow editing privileges ↩︎

Last updated on November 28, 2022

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