The CBMD wanted to better understand the sense of belonging that students experience in their schools. Additionally, CBMD hoped to quantify and assess students’ thriving, measuring the impact of the overarching Lasallian mission.
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Serving all religious traditions with carefully crafted research
We understand the nuances of the spiritual lives of young people and diversity of religious traditions across America. Our dataset is the nation’s largest on the religious lives of young people ages 13-25.
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We build insightful narratives from evidence, not assumptions. With careful research, we’ll provide you with sound, empirical data using a wide range of approaches.
We build insightful narratives from evidence, not assumptions. With careful research, we’ll provide you with sound, empirical data using a wide range of approaches.
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Our research services offer religious organizations a completely custom solution, where we walk with you to discover how to ask and answer your big questions.
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Our research team, trained in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research, doesn’t just collect data. We analyze it for you to determine key themes and patterns.
Qualitative interviews help you understand the ‘why’ and ‘how.’ Our interview methods reveal complex meanings and motivations underlying social phenomena. Using a detailed coding scheme, we work to show just how young people make sense of their lives—in their own words.
Guided by your program goals or grant objectives, we choose research methods that can assess strengths, progress, and areas to grow. By listening systematically to stakeholders, we give you a way to know whether you are actually achieving what you hope to achieve, measuring success along the way.
We use original measures and field-tested scales to identify relevant patterns and trends and gain a deeper understanding of your core audience’s characteristics, behaviors, opinions, and experiences.
Our questionnaire design, survey platform development, pretesting, fielding, and distribution support drive results to meet your goals.
Compass offers religious organizations pre-built surveys as an affordable and straightforward way to hear directly from the young people they serve.
Let us help you identify actionable, research-based next steps from key challenges you’re facing. We’ll offer support and specific suggestions as you discern ways that research can benefit your specific situation. Whether you use our reports to plan your next steps or partner with us for internal research, our consulting services will provide expertise and bring clarity.
Sometimes you just have to “be there.” We collect and share observational and ethnographic data gathered through in-person visits, interviews, focus groups, conferences, events, and daily activities.
Our experienced moderators guide focus groups—whether remote or in-person—to put together a trustworthy account of who belongs to your core audience. With questions customized to your objectives, we consider how group dynamics like age and power affect groups. We also offer pre-screening and direct communication with participants.
Our research team collaborates with you to determine the best approach for your specific questions. Creative, tailored approaches we’ve used include meeting with a group of small stakeholders, creating panels of young people who can react to the data, conducting participatory action research, and more.
We create data visualizations and narrative illustrations of findings in printed or digital formats. We can present your data at your next in-person or virtual board meeting, conference, or gathering.
GIS Mapping captures and displays location-based data. We simplify the complex ways that location influences experience, allowing you to see patterns and relationships.
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Springtide Research Helps Washington University Campus Ministers Create Deeper Connection with Students
Most campus ministers receive training on how to connect to students, yet Troy Woytek admits that establishing and maintaining those relationships can be challenging. As Director of Ministry for the Catholic Student Center at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU), Troy, along
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