Teaching · For Teachers

Know who is answering before the survey closes.

Enter invitations, then a count each time you check. The tracker shows the rate against your target, what reminders added and which groups are falling behind while there is still time.

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The response tracker

One tracker per survey. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · For Teachers$19 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
The response rate on eligible invitations, responses needed for the target, the effect of each reminder and subgroup rates with trailing groups marked.
Who it is for
Teacher-researchers, school leaders, district evaluators and family engagement staff running surveys.
Format
Browser form. One saved tracker per survey; printed with the summary or as a blank log; CSV of counts; export and import a file.
Access
$19 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the For Teachers toolkit ($79) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The For Teachers space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
who answered, and who did not
Drawn for this page. A survey speaks for the people who answered it; the empty envelopes are where bias hides.

How to use it

  1. Start a tracker with a survey code.
  2. Enter invitations sent and bounced, the target and the close date.
  3. Add a count each time you check, and mark the days a reminder went out.
  4. Add subgroups you will report on.
  5. Reach trailing groups directly before the survey closes.

Track a survey

Reading the rate

How the rate is counted

Completed responses divided by eligible invitations (sent minus bounced). Formal standards such as AAPOR’s define several response rates; whichever you use, report how you counted partials and bounces.

Nonresponse bias

A low rate is a problem mainly when the people who did not answer differ from those who did. A group answering far below the rest is the clearest sign; its views may be missing from the results.

What this is not

A survey platform. It keeps the counts from whichever tool you use.

Sources

  1. American Association for Public Opinion Research (2023). Standard Definitions: Final Dispositions of Case Codes and Outcome Rates for Surveys (10th ed.).
  2. Dillman, D. A., Smyth, J. D., & Christian, L. M. (2014). Internet, Phone, Mail, and Mixed-Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method (4th ed.). Wiley: contacts and reminders.
  3. Groves, R. M., & Peytcheva, E. (2008). The impact of nonresponse rates on nonresponse bias: A meta-analysis. Public Opinion Quarterly, 72(2), 167–189.
  4. Institute of Education Sciences, Regional Educational Laboratory Program: survey resources for schools and districts.

The example survey and counts are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.