The 7th GESIS Summer School in Survey
Methodology will take place from 02 to 24 August 2018 in Cologne. 15
courses are scheduled, among them 5 short courses and 10 one-week
courses. New to the program are courses on "Pretesting Survey
Questions", "Applied Multiple Imputation", and "Open Science and Open
Data". The courses "Mixed-Mode and Mixed-Device Surveys" and "Web
Survey Design" are back in our program. Don't miss out on the
opportunity to participate in Europe's leading Summer School in Survey
Methodology.
Here is an overview of this year's courses:
Week 0 (02 - 03 August):
Pretesting Survey Questions
Dr. Katharina Meitinger, Dr. Timo Lenzner
(GESIS, Germany)
Introduction to Data Analysis Using Mplus
Dr.
Matthias Blümke, Dr. Daniel Danner, Dr. Clemens Lechner (GESIS, Germany)
Research Designs and Causal Inference
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Eifler, Dr. Heinz Leitgöb
(Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany)
Introduction to Data Analysis Using Stata
Dr.
Reinhard Schunck (GESIS, Germany)
Week 1 (06 - 10 August):
Introduction to Survey Design
Prof. Dr. Peter Lugtig, Prof. Dr. Bella
Struminskaya (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling:
Confirmatory Factor Analysis with Mplus
Prof. Dr. Jost Reinecke, Georg Kessler
(University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Introduction to Data Analysis Using R
Dr. Jan-Philipp Kolb, Alexander Murray-Watters
(GESIS, Germany)
Applied Multiple Imputation
Dr. Ferdinand Geißler (Humboldt-University
Berlin, Germany), Dr. Jan Paul Heisig (WZB Berlin, Germany)
Week 2 (13 - 17 August):
Questionnaire Design
Prof. Dr. Marek Fuchs, Anke Metzler (Darmstadt
University of Technology, Germany)
Mixed-Mode and Mixed-Device Surveys
Prof. Dr. Vera Toepoel, Prof. Dr. Edith de
Leeuw (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands), Dr. Thomas Klausch (VU
University Medical Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Web Survey Design
Prof. Mick P. Couper, PhD (University of
Michigan, USA), Dr. Ines Schaurer (GESIS, Germany)
Week 3 (20 - 24 August):
Meta-Analysis in Social Research and Survey
Methodology
Dr.
Bernd Weiß, Jessica Daikeler (GESIS, Germany)
Sampling, Weighting, and Estimation
Stephanie Eckman, PhD (RTI International, USA)
Designing, Implementing, and Analyzing
Longitudinal Surveys
Dr. Tarek Al Baghal (University of Essex,
United Kingdom), Dr. Alexandru Cernat (University of Manchester, United
Kingdom)
Open Science and Open Data
Dr. Sebastian Netscher, Dr. Anja Perry (GESIS,
Germany)
ECTS Credits & More
Thanks to our cooperation with the Center
for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of
Mannheim, participants can obtain up to 4 ECTS points
per one-week course. In addition to the courses, participants are
welcome to attend evening talks by experts in survey methodology and,
thanks to our sponsors, can take part in an exciting social and
cultural program.
Register now! You will find more information here!
Also check out our Summer School leaflet!
If you want to know how the Summer School feels
like, watch our video.