The Communication Research Center offers clients a full-spectrum of survey research services: questionnaire design, sampling, data collection, statistical analyses, and report writing. Clients can contract with the center for any or all of these services.

Mail Surveys:

The CRC utilizes Teleform © software for content capture mail surveys. The flexible, optical-scan system is accurate, efficient and allows for very quick turnaround of survey findings. The center can design and implement any size sample survey. The optical-scan survey is ideal for organization surveys, follow-up evaluations for training workshops, on-site customer satisfaction surveys, conference evaluations, work climate/employee surveys, readership surveys and more.

Web-based Surveys:

On-line, interactive survey projects are designed using the latest Web-based development software. These paperless surveys promise fast turnaround at very reasonable rates. Web-based surveys are a secure, reliable, and efficient means for gathering information from an increasingly computer-literate work force and public. The center can assist with questionnaire development, data collection and data analysis.

Focus Group Research:

Focus group research involves in-depth, interactive discussions with a small number of specially-selected participants. Group members are carefully recruited and are homogeneous in terms of the issue under study. The center offers highly experienced moderators to recruit group participants and to conduct focus groups for message testing, survey development, and concept generation.

Telephone Surveys:

The call center features rapid-dial technology, computer-assisted telephone interviewing, and call monitoring. Standard interviewing protocols insure the highest quality of data collection. The call center is available for local, state and national surveys. The center is also capable of conducting phone interviews in Spanish.

Our experienced interviewers are highly motivated Communication students at Florida State University. The call center assures the highest quality of survey data through careful monitoring of interviews and other quality-control measures standard for telephone survey research. The center is available to assist organizations with marketing research, public opinion surveys, customer satisfaction surveys, audience studies, and needs assessments.

The CRC utilizes bi-lingual (Spanish/English) interviewers for its telephone surveys.

 

 

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