Describe your students and research goal. Makeform creates an age-appropriate bullying survey with neutral questions, frequency scales, location patterns, and reporting barriers.
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Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Students in grades 6–8
Format
Anonymous pulse survey with frequency scales
Prompt size
279 chars
Example survey structure
Anonymous pulse survey with frequency scales
How safe do you feel at school?
What did you experience or witness?
How often in the past 30 days?
Where did it happen?
What would make getting help easier?
Suggested analysis tags
Repeated experiences
High-risk locations
Reporting barriers
Ask separately about where, how often, and whether an adult was told. One broad bullying question hides the patterns a school can act on.
Step 1
Define
audience, time window, and research goal
Step 2
Draft
neutral items and consistent response scales
Step 3
Protect
no names, clear choices, separate help route
Step 4
Review
patterns by frequency, place, and reporting
Measure patterns, not identities
Clear definitions, bounded time periods, and optional responses help students answer while giving administrators structured patterns to review.
Leave out names, emails, IDs, usernames, and incident details. Explain what is collected and make sensitive items optional.
Ask about repeated insults, exclusion, threats, hitting, property damage, or harmful posts instead of relying on one label.
Keep one frequency scale and reference period across items so groups and survey waves remain comparable.
Adapt to the study
Change the reading level, recall period, and follow-ups while keeping core measures stable.
Measure safety, belonging, witnessing, and confidence in adult support.
Explore behaviors, frequency, impact, reporting decisions, and barriers without identifying peers.
Branch by online behavior, platform type, school impact, reporting, and support need.
Repeat stable items before and after an initiative with wave labels and non-identifying codes.
Survey workflow
Review each generated item for reading level, privacy risk, emotional load, and usefulness.
State the grade band, survey window, school context, and research goal.
Use concrete behaviors, optional choices, and follow-ups that appear only when relevant.
Explain that the survey is not a report, then provide a distinct help route.
Test comprehension, fix ambiguous choices, and compare aggregated patterns.
Choose the right collection method
A climate survey shows school patterns but does not replace a channel for a specific concern.
Field guide
Six blocks turn a broad topic into answerable, privacy-conscious questions.
Introduction
Explain the purpose, time window, optional choices, and review process. Tell students not to enter identifying details.
Experiences
Separate verbal, social, physical, property-related, and online behaviors. Keep experiencing and witnessing as distinct items.
Frequency
Use one clear recall period and ordered scale throughout the survey to reduce ambiguity during analysis.
Context
Use broad location choices that reveal patterns without inviting names. Allow multiple selections across school and online spaces.
Help-seeking
Ask whether an adult was told and what made speaking up easier or harder. Use staff roles instead of names.
Closing
Ask only for general improvement ideas, remind respondents not to include names, and display separate support options.
Related tools
Pair climate measurement with reporting, family feedback, polls, and pre/post evaluation.
FAQ
Answers for administrators and researchers planning anonymous student measurement.
It measures students' experiences, observations, safety, reporting behavior, and support needs over a defined period. Use it for group patterns, prevention priorities, or program change rather than investigating one incident.
Ask about concrete behaviors, experiencing and witnessing, frequency, broad locations, school impact, telling an adult, reporting barriers, and confidence in help. Add Not sure and Prefer not to answer where appropriate.
Avoid names, emails, IDs, usernames, schedules, and incident details. Make sensitive items optional, use only necessary broad demographics, review settings that could attach identifiers, and explain the setup accurately.
No. A survey measures group patterns. A reporting form describes a concern, while a named support request enables direct response. Link each option separately and explain its purpose.
Use age-appropriate language and concrete actions. Explain repeated harmful behavior and possible power differences, then give recognizable verbal, social, physical, property, and online examples.
Keep questions tied to the research goal. A pulse can be brief; an evaluation may need matched scales. Test at the intended reading level and remove duplication, unclear choices, and unnecessary demographics.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses for generating, editing, sharing, and repeating surveys. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Review aggregated frequency, behavior, location, witnessing, safety, help-seeking, and barrier patterns. Keep scales consistent, protect small groups, compare matching items, and document wording changes.
Turn student experiences into prevention priorities.
