SOURCE
Survey of Organization Research Climate

The SOURCE

  • Provides empirical data for assessing climate and knowledge about responsible research practices.
  • Contains 32 items (5 point Likert scales) plus classification information about respondents (rank, departmental affiliation, type of highest degree).
  • Takes 10-15 minutes to complete online.
  • Designed to assess organizational members’ perceptions of their organizational environments for responsible research practices both in general organizational settings and in specific working groups or divisions.
  • Analysis of the confidential survey submissions will support institutions engaged in organizational change efforts to measure their efficacy over time.
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Sample dataset

Run the SOURCE at Your Institution

An organization that wishes to run the SOURCE can make arrangements to do so. The license fee is based on the level of support desired in interpretation and analysis.

Once the license with NCPRE is in place, an institution provides emails and names of participants with departmental affiliations and status (graduate student, post-doc, faculty member). NCPRE manages the survey administration.

The NCPRE SOURCE team sends emails via institutional email addresses seeking survey participation and follows up with reminders over a 20 day period.  Response rates during previous studies have ranged from 5-50% and largely depends on socializing the survey within the institution.

The NCPRE SOURCE team provides analyses used to generate the summary reports for the contracting institution. As part of building a national “norming” database for providing comparative data, NCPRE retains de-identified information with limited demographics for comparison and benchmark purposes.

For more detailed information on the procedures involved in implementing SOURCE at your institution, please contact us at: ncpre-arc@illinois.edu or 217-333-1416.

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