Meetings with National Research Coordinators
Regular training meetings are scheduled with National Research Coordinators to ensure that all tasks they need to undertake in-country are understood and can be cascaded to relevant staff. See Survey Administration for an overview of this process.
The first meeting of SurveyLang and the National Research Coordinators: Krakow 29-31 October 2008.
Participants from 25 countries attended the meeting. The meeting acted as a first briefing and provided National Research Coordinators with a good understanding of the necessary tasks required for the implementation of the survey. SurveyLang gave an overview of the number and range of personnel needed to accomplish these tasks providing National Research Coordinators with enough information to draw up a budget for the survey and set up teams with the relevant skills and experience.
The following work areas were covered:
- Sampling tasks
- Questionnaire tasks
- Language tests tasks
- Marking tasks
- Wrap-up session (focus on NRC tasks and technical standards)
- Computer-based software system tasks
- Translation tasks
Each session was specifically designed to present an outline of National Research Coordinators’ responsibilities for each of the work areas. A large part of each session was dedicated to discussion and questions to ensure all participants had the opportunity to seek clarification and also share their experiences of working on similar surveys. The sampling, questionnaire and language testing sections also reported on feedback and information received from different stakeholders including National Research Coordinators, illustrating how this information was used to inform future developments. A demonstration of Gallup’s WebTrans system in the translation session gave a practical and lively illustration of the more theoretical part of the presentation.
The second meeting of SurveyLang and the National Research Coordinators: Brussels 4-5 June 2009.
National Research Coordinators were provided with practical rather than theoretical training. The sessions involved working on-line on the sampling and translation web-based systems and practicing on real tasks. This provided National Research Coordinators with the opportunity to ask SurveyLang experts in sampling and translation any questions that they had and to discuss any country-specific concerns about sampling or translation.
Summaries of future meetings will appear on this page. Future meetings will include:
- Pre-Field Trial test administration
- Marking of Writing
- Pre-Main Study test administration