Graduate School Belongingness Survey

ATTENTION:

Graduate Students

As part of a study being conducted at the Wright Institute, graduate students are being asked to conduct a survey related to their sense of belongingness. The information gathered will help in creating a new metric to assess belongingness in graduate school.

If you choose to participate, your participation would involve completing multiple online questionnaires that asks you to respond to a series of questions regarding (i) your general feelings around belongingness and its importance to you, (ii) different feelings and attitudes about your current graduate school program and experience, specifically questions about how your current graduate school program performs in terms of creating a sense of belongingness for you and (iii) demographic questions about your graduate program and yourself.

Completion of the materials should take no more than thirty minutes of your time. Your completed materials will be electronically captured anonymously after you submit your responses, with only the researcher and dissertation chair having access to the responses. In considering participation, please consider the following:
  1. Participation involves minimal risk to you beyond the possibility of some mild anxiety/distress in considering and responding to the topic, questions and/or materials.
  2. Participation results in no direct benefits to you beyond what might be gained by the experience of participating in a research study, and contributing to a better understanding of this topic. The benefits to the field include an increased understanding of graduate students’ sense of belongingness across varying identities. There is a benefit to the Wright Institute as it will get a preliminary glimpse to whether their students feel like they belong.
  3. Confidentiality will be protected to the full extent of the law. No identifying information is required and responses will be returned anonymously. No one including the researcher will be able to identify from the materials who participated.
  4. This study has Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval. If you have any questions or problems as a result of participating in this study, you can contact the head of IRB approval (Virginia Morgan, Head of IRB, The Wright Institute, vmorgan@wi.edu).
  5. Your participation is completely voluntary. Refusal to participate involves no penalty or loss of benefits and you may discontinue participation at any time without penalty.

Participate in the study here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/gsbelonging