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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
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):
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Research Data Management (Netscher/Katsanidou/Recker/Trixa)
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Research Designs and Causal Inference (Eifler/Leitgöb)
Week 1 (August 10-14):
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Introduction to Survey Design (Blom/Lugtig)
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Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling: Confirmatory Factor Analysis with Mplus (Reinecke/Kessler)
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Introduction to Data Analysis Using R (Steinhauer/Würbach)
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Development, Evaluation and Quality Assurance of Measurement Instruments (Menold/Beierlein)
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Introduction to Web Surveys (Lozar Manfreda/Berzelak)
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Design and Implementation of Surveys in Developing Countries (Mneimneh/Kelley)
Week 2 (August 17-21):
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Understanding and Modeling Measurement Error (Billiet/Revilla)
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Item Nonresponse and Multiple Imputation (Rässler/Meinfelder)
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Introduction to Questionnaire Design (Fuchs/Kunz/Metzler)
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Design and Implementation of Longitudinal Surveys (Lynn/Al Baghal)
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Questionnaire Translation in Cross-Cultural Surveys (Behr) (Short course, August 17-18)
Week 3 (August 24-28):
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Planning and Monitoring Survey Fieldwork: Balancing Survey Errors (Feskens/Kappelhof)
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Mixed-Mode and Mixed-Device Surveys (Toepoel/de Leeuw/Klausch)
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Testing Survey Data for Measurement Equivalence across Countries and Time (Schmidt/Davidov/Cieciuch)
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Sampling, Weighting and Estimation (Zins/Sand)
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Mobile Web Surveys (Keusch) (Short course, August 24-25)
Thanks to our cooperation with
CDSS, University of Mannheim,
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.
Thank you and best wishes,
Your GESIS Summer School Team
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GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology
web:
www.gesis.org/summerschool
facebook page:
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