What makes a good survey questionnaire? Consider the questions themselves and the questionnaire as a whole. Why is it important to make sure you have a good questionnaire? How can you determine if you have a good questionnaire?
What will be an ideal response?
Building on existing instruments--if another researcher already has designed a set of questions to measure a key concept and evidence from previous surveys indicates that this measure is reliable and valid, use the instrument; refine and test questions--discuss questionnaire content with others, use focus groups to check for consistent understanding of terms and to identify the range of events or experiences about which people will be asked to report, or cognitive interview (a technique for evaluating questions in which researchers ask people test questions and then probe with follow-up questions to learn how they understood the question and what their answers mean); survey pretest--a method of evaluating survey questions and procedures by testing them out on a small sample of individuals like those to be included in the actual survey and then reviewing responses to the questions and reactions to the survey procedures; add interpretive questions--questions included in a questionnaire or interview schedule to help explain answers to other important questions; maintain consistent focus--guided by a clear conception of the research problem under investigation and the population to be sampled; order the questions; make the questionnaire attractive such as making a questionnaire booklet; consider translation.
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