Every year, Ultra Vires surveys 2Ls on a variety of demographic and recruitment data. Unlike in previous years, the Demographics and Recruitment surveys were disaggregated to limit the risk of individual studies being identifiable by cross-referencing their Demographics responses with their Recruitment responses.
Thank you to everyone who completed the surveys! The below is self-reported survey data, so the usual caveats apply (see “Grades and Such”). This year, we had 106 responses for the Recruit Survey and 67 responses for the Demographics Survey. In a class size of about 200, these represent response rates of 54 percent and 34 percent respectively.
For privacy reasons, every effort was made to keep datasets from being identifiable. Given the breadth and depth of the questions asked (and answers reported), there was a large risk that individual students could be identified through a combination of demographic factors, although these could not be linked to any of their Recruit responses.
Regardless, all data are presented in aggregate and before any analysis was performed, only the specific data in question were looked at. For example, presenting age data, a separate spreadsheet was created that contained only age data, with all other responses having been deleted. Similar measures were taken with all the analysis that was performed to minimize the risk of students’ responses being linked to their identities.
