Our Expertise
SoundRocket specializes in designing and executing research studies using evidence-based methods and tools.
We use innovative practices and decades of experience to deliver high-quality, defensible results.
Our proven methods and innovative tools form the backbone of every study, ensuring precision and quality at every step.
Study design
Crafting the blueprint for your research.
Study design is a critical and complex step in social science research. SoundRocket guides decisions on design type, data collection methods, and experimental conditions. Engaging us early in the proposal stage ensures more efficient and successful outcomes.
Sampling strategies
Finding the right participants for your study.
Probability sampling, where each participant has a known chance of selection, is fundamental to social science research. However, non-probability sampling is increasingly common, often introducing challenges. SoundRocket helps you evaluate and choose the best sampling strategy to meet your study’s goals.
Questionnaire design
Building strong foundations for data collection.
From evaluating existing questionnaires to creating new ones, SoundRocket uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to maximize effectiveness.
We adapt our processes to fit within restrictive funding scenarios, ensuring you get the most value from available resources.
Survey methods
Optimizing surveys for maximum data quality.
SoundRocket ensures surveys are designed for accuracy and effectiveness, focusing on web and self-administered methods. Our expertise in questionnaire structure, visual design, and language helps you avoid pitfalls that can reduce data quality, like inappropriate progress indicators.
Data collection
Managing quality, timelines, and resources.
Data collection is often the most time-consuming and costly part of social science research, consuming much of a typical grant budget. Managing timelines, quality, and resources can pull scientists away from their core work.
SoundRocket works across web, mobile, telephone, SMS, paper, mail, and in-person data collection, acting as your general contractor for web-based, paper, qualitative interviews, and small-scale telephone studies, while partnering with trusted experts for larger-scale phone or in-person efforts.
Multi-mode data collection
Administering multi-mode data collection requires careful coordination across efforts, each with unique challenges. We focus on optimizing a single mode to guide key decisions while refining multi-mode designs to ensure quality across all methods.
Web and self-administered surveys
Self-administered survey design (including web and paper surveys) takes into account questionnaire design, visual design, language, and various psychological concepts to maximize quality in survey research.
Live televideo interviews
Live televideo interviews streamline qualitative data collection while maintaining high standards of accuracy and participant engagement. With seamless coordination, our researchers gather in-depth insights remotely without compromising on quality or convenience.
Multi-stage responsive designs
With declining response rates, data collection strategies must focus on quality. Simply increasing response rates without attention to quality metrics is no longer enough. We design multi-stage data collection and sampling strategies to maximize study quality.