The Health Education Research Experience (HERE) program metadata dataset

Area of Science:

• Health Education
• Survey Methodology
• Online Learning

Background:

• Undergraduate subject pools are common in US higher education.
• The Health Education Research Experience (HERE) Program was the first online course-based subject pool for online health education students.
• The program ran for five semesters (Spring 2012–Summer 2013) with 13 studies.

Purpose of the Study:

• To describe the Health Education Research Experience (HERE) Program, an online course-based subject pool.
• To present aggregated metadata on devices used by students completing online health education surveys.
• To inform survey designers and researchers about the implications of device diversity in online survey completion.

Main Methods:

• The HERE Program embedded 13 studies within an undergraduate online health education course.
• Survey instruments included metadata on student device usage for survey completion.
• Institutional Review Board approval was obtained for all study procedures and data collection.

Main Results:

• Metadata on student device usage for online survey completion were collected and aggregated.
• Descriptive statistics of the metadata are presented in tables.
• The aggregated metadata are publicly available via Mendeley Data.

Conclusions:

• Understanding the devices used for online survey completion is crucial for survey methodology and questionnaire design.
• The findings have implications for researchers designing and implementing online surveys.
• The aggregated metadata can benefit researchers in survey methodology, questionnaire design, and modes of survey collection.