Martha Stapleton
Pronouns: She/Her
Martha offers 25 years of project management across a wide variety of federal agencies, topic areas, and level of complexity. She also has expertise in developing and testing survey instruments and materials using a range of fit-to-purpose evaluation methods. She has led numerous survey design and testing efforts for the U.S. Census Bureau, Energy Information Administration, the National Cancer Institute, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on Aging, the Consumer Products Safety Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service, among others. She has contributed to conference presentations and peer-reviewed journal articles, including as lead author of a book chapter, “Best Practices in Managing Large-scale Qualitative Research Practices.”
She currently co-directs a large-scale multi-mode household survey that uses adaptive methodology incorporating nonprobability sampling and web-based outreach to conduct the latest iteration of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies long-running National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation.
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Education
MA
The George Washington University
BA
Rhode Island College
Project Contributions
Publications
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opens in new tab"Quality-Driven Approaches for Managing Complex Cognitive Testing Projects."
Book | March 25, 2022
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opens in new tab"Comparing Cognitive Interviewing and Psychometric Methods to Evaluate a Racial/Ethnic Discrimination Scale."
Journal Article | March 22, 2022
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opens in new tab"Accidental Motherhood: Reproductive Control and Access to Opportunity among Women in Canada."
Journal Article | March 22, 2022
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opens in new tab"Translation of a Tobacco Survey to Spanish and Asian Languages: The Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey."
Journal Article | March 22, 2022
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opens in new tab"Using Cognitive Interviews to Evaluate a Spanish-Language Translation of a Dietary Questionnaire."
Journal Article | March 22, 2022
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opens in new tab"Methods for Translating an English-Language Survey Questionnaire on Tobacco use into Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Vietnamese."
Journal Article | March 22, 2022
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opens in new tab"Evaluation of a Multi-Step Survey Translation Process."
Book | March 8, 2022