Web based surveys have been designed to support social norms programing in college and secondary school environments. Specifically, college student-athlete and greek surveys focusing on alcohol and tobacco use and other health related behaviors are available to support sub-population programming. A survey focusing on alcohol, tobacco, other drug use, and other health realted behaviors is available for programming in secondary schools as is a survey on bullying and school violence.

Web surveys provide a secure, low cost, rapid data collection solution for social norms programming that provides for greater accuracy through real-time validation. Students can complete surveys in 15-20 minutes.

Features of our web-based surveys with sample user interface screens are shown on this link (Click here).

You can see some examples below of results from surveys that have been administered, run some sample surveys, and learn how you can use these surveys in your program.

SAMPLE RESULTS USING PROJECT WEB-BASED SURVEY INSTRUMENTS

Recent research on thousands of middle and high school students from across the nation shows clear and pervasive misperceptions of alcohol, tobacco, other drug, health, and safety norms. Moreover, the pattern of emergence of these misperceptions by grade clearly point toward key developmental periods for strategic prevention intervention.

Survey Results Examining Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use in Secondary Schools

• 1999-2008 Survey results from over 52,000 secondary students from 78 middle and high schools in eleven regionally diverse states was recently completed and presented at the 2008 National Conference on the Social Norms Approach in San Francisco, California. The presentation abstract and results handouts can be downloaded here.
• 1999-2005 Survey responses about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs from over 28,000 secondary students from 50 middle and high schools in eight regionally diverse states was recently completed and presented at the 2005 International Social Norms Conference in Toronto, Canada. The presentaton abstract and results handouts can be downloaded here.
• Survey results about alcohol, tobacco and other drugs from over 3,800 New Jersey students in 2006 attending 7 high schools across the state.

Survey Results Examing Bullying in Secondary Schools

• "Where Does Bullying Take Place among Adolescents When They are at School?" presented by H. Wesley Perkins, Jessica Perkins, and David Craig at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 11, 2009. (abstract, handouts).

• "Misperceptions of Bullying Norms as a Risk Factor Associated with Violence among Middle School Students," presented by H. Wesley Perkins, David Craig and Jessica Perkins at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 10, 2009.(abstract, handouts).

• "Assessing Bullying In New Jersey Secondary Schools: Applying The Social Norms Model To Adolescent Violence" breakout session presented by David W. Craig and H. Wesley Perkins at the 2008 National Conference on the Social Norms Approach, Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, CA, July 21, 2008 (abstract, slides).

• "Social Norms Research on School Violence in England: Another Look at Misperceived Peer Norms as the Biggest Bully of All" breakout session presented by H. Wesley Perkins at the 2008 National Conference on the Social Norms Approach, Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, CA, July 21, 2008 (abstract, slides).

• "Assessing Bullying in Secondary Schools with a New Online Survey: Applying the Social Norms Model to Adolescent Violence," workshop presented by H. Wesley Perkins and David W. Craig at The National Conference on the Social Norms Model, Denver, CO, July 28, 2006 (program handout, slides)

Survey Results Examining Alcohol and Tobacco Norms among Collegiate Student-Athletes

• Aggregate results for collegiate student-athletes 2001-2009 (report)

• "Multi-site Social Norms Intervention for Student Athletes: An Analysis of the Effect of Program Exposure on High Risk Drinking," breakout session presented by David Craig and H. Wesley Perkins at The 2009 National Conference on the Social Norms Approach, Minneapolis, MN, July 13, 2009. (abstract, slides)

• "The 'Reign of Error' in Student-Athlete Alcohol Use: A Multi-Site Study at Institutions of Higher Education in the U. S.," seminar presented by H. Wesley Perkins and David W. Craig at The National Conference on the Social Norms Model, Cambridge, MA, July 17, 2007. (abstract, slides)

Some additional sample results can be seen by viewing the links below:

• Alcohol Norms and Perceptions among middle and high school students

• Tobacco Norms and Perceptions among middle and high school students

• Illicit Drug Norms and Perceptions among middle and high school students

WEB-BASED SURVEY INSTRUMENTS

• Secondary School ATOD Instrument (Enter test for the username and test for the password at the logon screen)
  
  Survey focusing on ATOD norms, healthy life styles, school safety, and traffic safety. Both English and Spanish versions of the survey can be accessed here (instructions for survey administration).

• Secondary School Bullying Instrument (Enter test for the username and test for the password at the logon screen)
  
  Survey focusing on Bullying norms and perceptions. Both English and Spanish versions of the survey can be accessed here (instructions for survey administration). Click here for sample results.

• College Greek Instrument (Enter test for the username and test for the password at the logon screen):
  
  Survey focusing on alcohol and tobacco norms and perceptions, greek organization involvement, health and well-being, co-curricular activities, academic interests/accomplishments, post-graduation plans (instructions for survey administration).
  
  
• College Student-Athlete Instrument (Enter test for the username and test for the password at the logon screen):
  
  Survey focusing on alcohol and tobacco norms and perceptions, athletic involvement, health and well-being, co-curricular activities, academic interests/accomplishments, post-graduation plans (instructions for survey administration).
  
  

How to Use one of our Web-Based Survey Instruments

Here are the steps that you need to take to use one of our web-based survey instruments in your program.

• Contact one of the project directors (H. Wesley Perkins, 315-781-3437 or David W. Craig, 315-781-3611) to discuss your specific application and the time you wish to conduct the survey.
• Discuss with a project director any customized questions you need for your programming beyond those questions already present in our survey instrument for your application.
• Obtain a data disclosure agreement form and have it signed by an administrator from your institution. (Click here for secondary school disclosure agreement form. Click here for college disclosure agreement form.)
• Setup a Schedule for survey administration for your population.
• Automatic coding by our web server means that results can be made available as soon as the surveys have been completed. Data bases generated by the online surveys are cleaned and validated to remove the few intentionally erroneous submissions by respondents that occassionally occur, thus providing reliable results (data cleaning procedure).

Advantages of

Web-Based Surveys

• low cost
• rapid data return
• greater accuracy through real-time validation
• students can complete surveys in 10-15 minutes
• support for spanish-speaking students
• customizable questions with no reprinting costs
• security and anonymity controlled by timed usernames and passwords
• increased data integrity and program efficacy through greater student participation
• facilitate ongoing program assessment
  
  
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  web surveys can improve survey
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