Administering Surveys to International Undergraduates—Recommendations for Best Practices

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Researchers and educators historically have administered surveys to collect data, track perceptions, and/or solicit opinions from undergraduates, including internationals, attending American institutions. To promote survey responses’ generalizability, the present report advocates the following recommendations for best practices in survey administration. 1) Use stratified random sampling methodology to identify which specific subset of students from the campus’ source population to invite to the survey. 2) Strive for, design, and implement an administration process that achieves a high response rate (preferably above 90%). 3) Choose an incentive that is truly salient for survey invitees to recruit and reward them for their time. 4) Dispatch only two reminder invitations to the randomly sampled undergraduates; and as a last resort for maximizing response rate, invite substitutes for those who decline the invitations. These recommendations were followed in an exploratory pilot study on international undergraduates’ belongingness that is reported and discussed here.

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