MIT Health & Wellness Surveys: Tips from Developing the 2014 MIT Community Attitudes on Sexual Assault (CASA) Survey
The content of the survey was pulled from known sources as well as internal group discussions. Some materials that may be helpful to schools from the MIT survey are below, and comments on other question sources.
Important Note: the documentation for this survey does not yet reflect changes MIT would make if we were to run the survey again.
- MIT CASA Student Survey (PDF)
- MIT CASA Student Survey with survey drop-off by page and question sources
Survey drop-off was similar to other surveys:- Females: 40% responded to questions on the first page, 34% on the last page.
- Males: 31% responded to questions on the first page, 24% on the last page.
- Undergraduates: 40% responded to questions on the first page, 33% on the last page.
- Graduate students: 31% responded to questions on the first page, 25% on the last page.
- MIT CASA QSF for Qualtrics (as of 6/8/2014)
This code is being released "as-is" without technical support from MIT or Qualtrics. Any coding irregularities uncovered during analysis will be corrected as time allows. Schools are still responsible for testing and code-checking the survey after importing the QSF. Note: the survey uses the Qualtrics Table of Contents feature. If you do not have that enabled in your brand, please contact your account manager.
Other Question Sources
- A number of schools mentioned looking at the revised SES instrument (Koss et al.) as a question source. The SES questions with notes on MIT's adaptations are available from RevisingSES2007-JagComments.pdf.
- NotAlone.gov posted resources for conducting "climate" surveys at colleges and universities. Anyone working on a sexual misconduct survey for their own campus should consider using some of these questions.
- COFHE and AAUDE schools have asked some questions on this topic in the NCHA.