Frequently Asked Questions

Poltem Academy is both a full-fledged research company and an advanced software company. The company provides digital solutions for many sectors, especially the education sector.

• Service Range: It has the potential and network to provide data to all individual and corporate customers, especially academicians.
• Field Operations: Thanks to its collaborations across Turkey, it has the ability to provide data nationwide in a very short time.
• Data Collection Methods: It offers hybrid models ranging from organizing online focus groups to collecting data with face-to-face pollsters in the field (street surveys, interviews, etc.).
• Audit Services: It carries out mystery shopper researches, store audits and reporting of these processes.

• Software Development: It offers digital solutions to many sectors, especially educational technologies, tailored to sector needs.
• Platform Provider: It operates as a technical infrastructure provider that builds a digital and physical bridge between researchers (academicians, institutions, organizations) and participants. Poltem Academy also has the competence to process the collected data within the scope of advanced analytical and R&D studies such as data mining and developing artificial intelligence models, in addition to its existing services.

• Pricing for Quantitative Researches (Surveys): In survey studies, our fee schedule; basically varies according to the average completion time of the survey and the target sample size.
• Calculation Robot: You can instantly see the cost of your research by using the interactive calculation robot on the home page of our website.
• Fair Payment System: A very large part of the determined fee is reflected to our participants who carefully complete the survey as an "incentive reward"; this increases data quality.
• Pricing for Qualitative Researches (Interviews & Focus Groups): Standardly, 1,000 TRY is paid for each selected participant in qualitative researches. This fee aims to keep the motivation and contribution of the participant to the research at the highest level.

Scientific ethics is our most sensitive point. There are at least 2 control/trap questions in our surveys. In addition, the "participant score" of users caught in trap questions in previous surveys is reduced. Thus, priority is given to those with a high score in new surveys. With the Device ID Verification feature of the system, duplicate participation is 100% prevented. Since our participants who want to earn more rewards are aware of this scoring, they fill out their surveys more carefully and motivated.

Poltem Academy is a corporate company registered with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, operating within the Karabük University Technopark. It was founded by two academicians who are experts in their fields. You can examine the academic CVs and works of our founders from the "Our Team" tab on our website.

Our company provides professional and advanced data analysis training and consulting. We produce solutions for all your scientific needs with our expert team not only in social sciences; but also in Health, Science and Engineering fields.

Poltem Academy provides professional level training and technical information support for the most widely used statistical programs in the field (SPSS, R, AMOS, SmartPLS, LISREL, Python, Stata, SAS, MAXQDA, NVivo, PROMETHEE, TOPSIS).

There are hundreds of participants waiting to participate in permitted interviews on our Poltem Mobile application. When you submit your request to us, we filter the profiles that suit your criteria. We send a research request to suitable participants for the day and time you determine, and bring you together in a "supervised online environment" with those who respond positively.

The duration is determined according to the quorum of the sample you want in our database. If the quorum can be reached with the registered users in our database, we generally deliver your surveys within the day. In very specific audiences, extra time may be requested from you.

Your earnings are transferred in cash to your IBAN number registered in the system on the 15th working day of the month following the month you participated in the survey.

Poltem Academy works fully compliant with KVKK standards numbered 6698. The identity and contact information of our participants are never shared with any third party, including researchers. Only anonymous demographic data and survey responses required by the project are transferred to the researchers. Your data is completely stripped of your identity and processed only to produce scientific statistics.

Yes. A digital "Informed Consent Form" is presented to the participants at the beginning of each research via Poltem Mobile. By recording these consents, the necessary technical infrastructure for your academic ethical processes is provided.