Describe the three types of survey questions and outline the advantages and disadvantages of each
What will be an ideal response?
Open-ended questions allow a participant to express an answer in his or her own words. These questions give the participants the greatest flexibility in choosing an answer, but they can be very difficult to summarize or analyze. Restricted questions provide participants with a fixed set of response options. These questions are easy to analyze because all participants use the same set of responses. However, the pre-determined list of responses may not include answers that the participants would like to express. Rating scale questions allow participants to express different degrees of responding by selecting a number on a scale. The primary advantage of rating scale questions is that they produce a numerical score for each participant.
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