Questionnaires

Question 1

What are the advantages of interviews and questionnaires?

Answer 1

You can access what people think

Question 2

What is the main advantage of a questionnaire over an interview?

Answer 2

You can distribute it relatively quickly to get a large amount of data

Question 3

There are re-guiding principles when writing good questions what are they

Answer 3

Polarity, bias and analysis

Question 4

What is a clear question?

Answer 4

There should be no ambiguity and the reader need to understand what is being asked

Question 5

What is a leading question?

Answer 5

The way the question was asked affected the answer

Question 6

What is a social desirability bias?

Answer 6

Respondent’s answers that make them look more attractive nicer more generous et cetera rather than being totally truthful

Question 7

Questions need to be designed with an analysis in mind. Why?

Answer 7

Once researchers collect all the data the answers need to be summarising the conclusions can be drawn

Question 8

There are two broad categories of questions and to associative forms of analysis. What are the two broad categories of questions

Answer 8

Open and closed questions

Question 9

What is a closed question

Answer 9

they have a limited number of answers

Question 10

What an open question?

Answer 10

They have a potentially infinite set of answers

Question 11

Give an example of a rating scale with a closed question

Answer 11

Rachel feelings about spiders on a scale of 1 to 5 where one is very scared and five is not scared at all

Question 12

Gives an example of a likert rating scale

Answer 12

Indicate how much you agree or disagree with the statement work is very stressful strongly agree agree not sure disagree strongly disagree

Question 13

Give example of a semantic differential rating scale

Answer 13

Indicate your feelings about work by placing an axe me appropriate position between each pair of adjectives:

fun. …. Boring
relaxing. ….. stressful
worthwhile. ….waste of time

Question 14

Give an example of a ranked scale

Answer 14

Both the following items in ranked order with the most preferred pet at number one:
dog cat rat budgie hamster snake coarse fish tortoise

Question 15

What are the disadvantages of closed questions

Answer 15

Respondents may be forced to select answers that don’t represent their real thoughts or behaviour

Question 16

What are the advantages of closed questions?

Answer 16

Produce quantitative data which are easier to analyse

Question 17

What other disadvantages of open questions

Answer 17

Likely to reduce qualitative data which are more difficult to summarise because there is likely to be such a wide range of responses. It may be more difficult to see a pattern from which to draw conclusions

Question 18

What are the advantages of open questions

Answer 18

Can provide a rich amount of detail and unexpected answers which allows researchers to gain greater insight

Question 19

What other four considerations when designing a good questionnaire?

Answer 19

Filler questions, sequence for the questions, sampling technique, piloting

Question 20

Why include filler questions

Answer 20

it may help to include some irrelevant questions to mislead the respondents from the main purpose of the questionnaire

Question 21

What sequence of questions in a questionnaire is best to consider?

Answer 21

It is best to start with the easy ones saving difficult questions until the respondents has relaxed

Question 22

Why consider sampling When designing a questionnaire

Answer 22

You need to bear in mind how to select respondents

Question 23

Why is piloting a questionnaire important

Answer 23

You can refine the questions in response to any difficulties encountered

Question 24

Questionnaires may collect quantitative data - what is that

Answer 24

Numerical information

Question 25

Questionnaires may collect qualitative data - What is that?

Answer 25

Data that expresses the quality of things including description words meanings pictures and so on

Question 26

Can qualitative data be counted or quantified?

Answer 26

No but they can be turned into quantitative data by placing the dating categories

Question 27

What is the purpose of the questionnaire or interview as a research method or technique?

Answer 27

If the researcher was collecting data about what people do and why the questionnaire would be the research method. Alternatively the questionnaire can be used as a research technique to assess the DV

Question 28

Give an example when a questionnaire is used to collect data

Answer 28

If ever the researcher was using a method to find about different attitudes then it may be that the questionnaire would be used to collect data but the actual analysis would involve a comparison between two groups of participants

Question 29

What are the 6 steps in questionnaire design

Answer 29

1. 1. Write the questions
2. Construct the questionnaire
3. consider ethical issues and how to deal with them
4. write standardised instructions
5. pilot the questionnaire
6. decide on a sampling technique

Question 30

What are the key steps in using the questionnaire

Answer 30

1. Collect data
2. Analyse the data including e.g. a bar chart for quantitative data and a summary of trends for qualitative data
3. write a report including a section describing the procedures and results