The best practices for survey research include questions that are relevant, clear, short and concise, avoiding negative items (such as not), and avoiding bias. The research question that will be studied is does participation in family fun time activities affect family involvement? The survey question that will be used to operationalize the dependent variable will measure the family’s engagement; “on a scale from 0-10 (0 = not at all, 10 = a great amount) how engaged was your family during the activity”. The survey question that will be used to operationalize the independent variable, socioeconomic status, will be measured through the following: what is your highest level of education? The answer attributes for this question are some high school, high school or GED, certification from a trade school/vocational school, some college, associate degree, bachelor’s degree, graduate degree, or more. These are good and well-written questions because they have a clear answer choice, accurately measure the variables we want to study, and everyone has an answer choice.