Describe your research question and audience. Makeform turns the brief into a focused global warming survey with neutral wording, balanced choices, and a clear path from awareness to opinions.
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Sample prompts for the survey builder
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Audience
High school or college students
Format
Short anonymous classroom survey
Prompt size
279 chars
Example survey structure
Short anonymous classroom survey
How familiar are you with global warming?
Which possible effects have you heard about?
Where do you get information about climate topics?
How concerned are you about global warming?
What would you like to learn more about?
Suggested analysis tags
Awareness
Concern
Policy opinions
Separate factual awareness from opinion; respondents can understand a concept while disagreeing about priorities.
Step 1
Define
research question, audience, and sample
Step 2
Draft
awareness, concern, and opinion items
Step 3
Test
wording, choices, order, and survey length
Step 4
Analyze
clean responses and compare groups
Better climate questions
Give awareness, certainty, concern, and policy preference separate questions and scales.
Separate cause, concern, responsibility, and support so respondents never answer two ideas at once.
Pair support with opposition, use a fitting midpoint, and add not sure when knowledge may be incomplete.
Use consistent scales and optional demographic ranges to compare relevant groups.
Common study designs
Choose a structure for describing opinions, evaluating a lesson, or exploring local priorities.
Map vocabulary, sources, concern, and questions students want addressed.
Repeat core measures before and after instruction with a private matching code.
Ask about local effects and responses without suggesting an expected position.
Organize constructs, keep scales consistent, and connect items to the analysis plan.
Survey workflow
Describe the instrument, then review it against your audience and analysis method.
State the audience, research question, completion time, measures, and anonymity needs.
Remove leading language, double questions, jargon, and overlapping choices.
Ask intended respondents what each question means and note missing choices.
Export structured responses, document exclusions, and follow the sampling plan.
Question design
Match each question type to the evidence and analysis you need.
Field guide
Select only sections tied to the research question and planned analysis.
Screening and context
Confirm eligibility, survey timing, or class group before the main questions. Explain whether participation is voluntary and how the researcher intends to use responses.
Awareness
Ask how familiar people feel, then use separate recognition items for causes and effects. Include an unsure choice so guessing is not rewarded.
Information
Someone may frequently see a source without trusting it. Use one question for exposure and another consistent scale for trust.
Concern and risk
Measure concern about effects on the respondent, local community, future generations, and ecosystems as distinct items on the same scale.
Opinions and action
Describe each possible personal, school, business, or government action plainly, then ask for support or opposition without assuming it works.
Background
Put optional demographic ranges near the end and include prefer not to answer. Only request variables that have a stated role in the analysis.
Related tools
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Open toolCompare the same measures before and after a lesson or program.
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Open toolFAQ
Answers for students, teachers, and researchers planning an awareness or opinion study.
Start with the research question. Common measures include familiarity, recognized causes and effects, sources, certainty, concern, risk, responsibility, and support for responses. Keep them separate rather than combining them into one question.
Use plain descriptions, ask only one thing at a time, and give opposing positions comparable wording. Avoid labels that praise or criticize an answer. Include not sure when respondents may lack knowledge and prefer not to answer for optional background questions.
Anonymous collection may help when names are unnecessary, but the right choice depends on the study. If you need to pair pre- and post-responses, consider a private response code. Tell respondents what you collect and avoid claiming anonymity if names, emails, or identifying details are required.
Include only variables needed for a planned comparison, such as age range, grade, broad location, or education. Make sensitive items optional, offer prefer not to answer, and consider whether small groups could make people recognizable.
Keep it as short as the assignment allows. Prioritize necessary measures, time it during a pilot, and remove repetition. A focused survey is easier to complete and analyze.
Yes. Keep the central questions and response scales identical at both times, label whether the response is before or after instruction, and use a non-identifying code if paired analysis is needed. Add lesson-specific feedback only to the post version.
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Pilot with people similar to the audience. Ask what each item means, check for overlapping or missing choices, test the form on a phone, and verify the export matches the analysis plan.
Turn research into a questionnaire.
