Welcome to The Office of Planning and Institutional Performance’s survey page. OPIP is eager to serve FGCU by providing you with excellent survey coordination, development, administration, and reporting. OPIP will provide guidelines for appropriate sampling, follow-up reminders, and structuring of survey items. We will also gather information from users about the purpose of the survey and how they plan to use results from the survey.

Here is a list of previous reports

1. Survey Coordination – The survey coordination stage is your first stop in the survey process. At this meeting you submit a survey draft and we examine your draft, paying particular attention to survey structure and survey components for software feasibility and validity. A date is set for completion, and a time is set for our next meeting.

   The Office of Planning and Institutional Performance will review the proposed survey questions and the email/letter announcing the survey ensuring that the following guidelines have been followed:

   • It is the primary investigator's responsibility to see that research follows all NIH human research guidelines and to seek IRB approval. If the results of the research are to be published or presented at a conference, the approval of the IRB is required.
   • If assessment results will not be published and the respondents remain anonymous, formal campus IRB approval is not required, but the purpose of the research and the fact that participation is voluntary must be explained to participants.
   • If assessment results will not be published and the survey responses will be linked to an individual, formal IRB is not required, but the purpose of the research, the fact that participation is voluntary, and actions to ensure confidentiality must be explained to participants. If the survey includes identifiers to facilitate sending reminders, OPIP staff will strip the identifiers from the data before releasing it to the user.

   Contact the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs - compliance page.

   • If data from student records are used in assessment research, all requirements of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) must be met. Non-public student data can be used without the student's consent by university employees for "legitimate educational" purposes provided the data is not reported in such a way that individual students can be identified. All other users must receive written consent from the student(s) to access non-public student data. OPIP will not release individual student information.
     
2. Survey development – The developmental stage of the survey process is ongoing. At this meeting, the final draft survey is confirmed.
   

   OPIP writes the actual survey (either paper or online) from the final draft survey and tests the survey to ensure functionality. For online surveys, OPIP provides a link. For paper surveys your department provides the printer.

OPIP may require subsequent meetings with you during this developmental stage.

3. Survey administration – In most cases, you administer the survey and return the completed surveys to OPIP for reporting.

4. Reporting – This is the last step in the survey process. OPIP scans the completed surveys, aggregates the data, and provides you with a report, which includes frequencies and descriptive statistics. Sometimes there is a follow up meeting where we can discuss improvements in any of the stages of the survey process.

5. Follow-up - Forms will be sent to the contact person for the survey. Information will be gathered regarding survey administration process and how results were used to improve programs and services on campus. Information from the follow-up form will be used to improve our survey services and to assist with FGCU annual reports.