Questionnaires Etc

Question 1

What makes a good questionnaire?

Answer 1

Clarity - Questions should be understandable and not ambiguous.
Bias- respondents shouldn’t be given any leading questions.
Pilot study - test your questionnaire on a few people at first, this can help you remove ambiguous terms.
Filler questions - Add some irrelevant questions to distract the participants.

Question 2

Give a strength of a closed question

Answer 2

provides quantitative data which can be statistically analysed.
its also quick to do and interpret.

Question 3

Give a weakness of a closed question

Answer 3

Doesn’t provide responses of very high quality as there’s no explanations to it.
It is also unclear how the respondent understood the question.

Question 4

Give a strength of an open question

Answer 4

provides high quality data and allows respondents to express themselves.

Question 5

Weakness of open questions

Answer 5

Analysis can be more difficult and more time consuming.

Question 6

What are issues with designing a questionnaire?

Answer 6

Respondents may want to make themselves look better than what they are, and therefore may lie in the questionnaire to make them seem better.
They may also fear standing out, so may answer in a way that is considered the norm. This is known as social desirability bias.

Question 7

What does measures of dispersion mean?

Answer 7

It calculates how spread out or dispersed the data is from the mean.

Question 8

state a problem with the inductive approach.

Answer 8

This analysis is subjective and relies on how the researcher interprets information.

Question 9

What is thematic analysis?

Answer 9

This is when we emphasise and pinpoint key patterns and themes within data.

Question 10

What is stratified sampling method?

Answer 10

Stratified sampling is a type of sampling method in which the total population is divided into smaller groups or strata to complete the sampling process. The strata is formed based on some common
characteristics in the population data.

Question 11

What two ways can we conduct thematic analysis?

Question 12

What is an opportunity sample?

Answer 12

This is where we gather participants based on who is available at the time.

Question 13

What is a volunteer sample?

Answer 13

Participants who self select themselves.

Question 14

Strength and Weakness of random sampling

Answer 14

• The advantages are that your sample should represent the target population and eliminate sampling
bias.
• A weakness is that it is very difficult to achieve (i.e. time, effort and money).

Question 15

Strength and Weakness of stratified sampling.

Answer 15

Weakness - arranging and evaluating the results is more difficult compared to a simple random sampling.
Strength - it captures key population characteristics in the sample.

Question 16

Strength and weakness of opportunity sample.

Answer 16

• This is a quick way and easy of choosing participants.
• It may not provide a representative sample, and could be biased

Question 17

Strength and weakness of volunteer sample

Answer 17

Voluntary sampling is highly susceptible to bias, because researchers make little effort to control sample composition.
(weakness)
Requires little effort by the researcher (strength)