***Apologies for cross-posting*** Next week is the last chance to register with early bird rates: those who book and pay for a course by April 30th will receive a 50 Euro discount off the one-week course fees. The 4th GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology<http://www.gesis.org/summerschool> will be held from August 6 to 28 at GESIS Cologne, Germany. Here is an overview of the courses on offer this year: Short courses (August 6-7): § Research Data Management (Netscher/Katsanidou/Recker/Trixa) § Research Designs and Causal Inference (Eifler/Leitgöb) Week 1 (August 10-14): § Introduction to Survey Design (Blom/Lugtig) § Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling: Confirmatory Factor Analysis with Mplus (Reinecke/Kessler) § Introduction to Data Analysis Using R (Steinhauer/Würbach) § Development, Evaluation and Quality Assurance of Measurement Instruments (Menold/Beierlein) § Introduction to Web Surveys (Lozar Manfreda/Berzelak) § Design and Implementation of Surveys in Developing Countries (Mneimneh/Kelley) Week 2 (August 17-21): § Understanding and Modeling Measurement Error (Billiet/Revilla) § Item Nonresponse and Multiple Imputation (Rässler/Meinfelder) § Introduction to Questionnaire Design (Fuchs/Kunz/Metzler) § Design and Implementation of Longitudinal Surveys (Lynn/Al Baghal) § Questionnaire Translation in Cross-Cultural Surveys (Behr) (Short course, August 17-18) Week 3 (August 24-28): § Planning and Monitoring Survey Fieldwork: Balancing Survey Errors (Feskens/Kappelhof) § Mixed-Mode and Mixed-Device Surveys (Toepoel/de Leeuw/Klausch) § Testing Survey Data for Measurement Equivalence across Countries and Time (Schmidt/Davidov/Cieciuch) § Sampling, Weighting and Estimation (Zins/Sand) § Mobile Web Surveys (Keusch) (Short course, August 24-25) Thanks to our cooperation with CDSS, University of Mannheim<http://gess.uni-mannheim.de/CDSS/>, participants can obtain up to 4 ECTS points per one-week course. You will find more information on our website at www.gesis.org/summerschool<http://www.gesis.org/summerschool>. Thank you and best wishes, Your GESIS Summer School Team --- GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> web: www.gesis.org/summerschool<http://www.gesis.org/summerschool> facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/GESISSummerSchool