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Chapter 7: Survey Research
Multiple Choice
1. What is the foremost reason for the popularity of survey methods?
a. versatility
b. high cost
c. no need for reference points
d. social acceptance
Learning Objective: 7.1: Identity the circumstances that make survey research an appropriate methodology.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Versatility
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. One of the most successful omnibus surveys is the ______.
a. NCVS
b. NISVS
c. GSS
d. U.S. Census
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Omnibus Survey
Difficulty Level:
3. In practice, survey questions, if misleading or unclear, can result in ______.
a. open-ended questions without explicit response choices
b. inappropriate and unintended answers
c. closed-ended questions with explicit response choices
d. easily understandable answers
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Writing Survey Questions: More Difficult Than You Think!
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. ______ questions are excellent tools for obtaining respondents’ interpretations in greater detail and can often illuminate flaws in other questions.
a. Closed-ended
b. Specific
c. Unclear
d. Open-ended
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Writing Survey Questions: More Difficult Than You Think!
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. When respondents are offered explicit responses to choose from, this type of question is referred to as a ______ question.
a. explicit
b. fixed-choice
c. summary
d. open-ended
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Writing Survey Questions: More Difficult Than You Think!
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Generally, research shows that the longer the reference period, the greater the ______.
a. specificity of the reporting of a given behavior
b. underreporting of a given behavior
c. chance that respondents will remember more details
d. opportunity for respondents to construct meaningful responses
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Avoid Confusing Phrasing and Vagueness
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. What type of questions is this: “Do you disagree that juveniles should not be tried as adults if they commit murder?”
a. a negative-negative question
b. a double-negative question
c. a double-barreled question
d. a mutually exclusive question
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Avoid Negative Words and Double Negatives
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Consider this question: On average, how much time do you spend on the job each week taking care of traffic violations?
Less than 1 hour
1–3 hours
3–6 hours
6–10 hours
10 hours or more
Which answer best describes the response categories?
a. They are both mutually exclusive and exhaustive.
b. They are exhaustive only.
c. They are mutually exclusive only.
d. none of these
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Make Response Choices Mutually Exclusive
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. When you want respondents to make only one choice, the fixed-response categories must ______.
a. overlap
b. allow all respondents to select one or more options
c. force all respondents to choose more than one option
d. not overlap
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Make Response Choices Mutually Exclusive
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. ______ type responses generally ask respondents to indicate the extent to which they agree or disagree with statements.
a. Fence Sitting
b. Floating type
c. Likert-type
d. Filter-type
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Utilize Likert-Type Response Categories
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Fence-sitters are people who ______.
a. choose a substantive answer even when they do not know anything about a particular question
b. see themselves as neutral in their attitudes toward a particular issue
c. help researchers decide whether responses are consistent
d. feel that questions about income invade their privacy
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Minimize Fence-Sitting and Floating
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Respondents who choose a substantive answer even when they do not know anything about a particular question are ______.
a. floaters
b. fixed choice respondents
c. fence-sitters
d. skip patterns
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Minimize Fence-Sitting and Floating
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. When several questions are used to measure one concept, the responses may be combined to take the sum or average of the responses in order to create a(n) ______.
a. reliability measure
b. index
c. reverse code
d. idiosyncratic variation
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Combining Questions Into an Index
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. A survey question used to identify a subset of respondents who then are asked other questions is known as a(n) ______.
a. idiosyncratic variation
b. contingent question
c. skip pattern
d. filter question
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Utilize Filter Questions
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Research has shown that one third of the public will provide an opinion on a proposed law they know nothing about if they are not provided with a ______ response option.
a. neutral
b. “don’t care”
c. “don’t know”
d. fence sitting
Learning Objective: 7.3: Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of including “don’t know” and neutral responses among response choices and of using open-ended questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Minimize Fence-Sitting and Floating
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. A self-administered survey is ______.
a. conducted by interviewers questioning respondents over the phone and then recording their answers
b. conducted by mailing a questionnaire to respondents, who then administer the survey themselves
c. completed by individual respondents assembled in a group
d. always conducted over a computer
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Mailed (Self-Administered) Surveys
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. Two matters may undermine the validity of a phone survey: not ______ and not ______.
a. reaching the population; getting some surveys
b. finding all the available units; reaching generalizability
c. finding designated phone exchanges; reaching inappropriate households
d. reaching the proper sampling units; getting enough complete responses
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Surveys by Telephone
Difficulty Level: Hard
18. The difficulty with group-administered surveys is that assembling a group ______.
a. is rarely approachable because respondents don’t trust researchers
b. is seldom feasible because it requires a captive audience
c. it is much easier to send out computer generated questionnaires
d. can be difficult because it tends to have a very high response rate
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Group-Administered Surveys
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. CATI is ______.
a. computer interactive voice response
b. cell assisted telephone interviewing
c. cellular assisted trip interaction
d. computer-assisted telephone interview
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Maximizing Response to Phone Surveys
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. If financial resources are available, ______ is often the best survey design
a. in-person interviewing
b. phone interviewing
c. computer assisted personal interviewing
d. computer interactive voice response software
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: In-Person Interviews
Difficulty Level: Hard
21. Electronic surveys have become increasingly useful because of growth in the ______.
a. mailed sampling industry
b. lengthy sets of response choices
c. fraction of the population using the Internet
d. access to the Internet has reached virtually everyone these days
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Maximizing Response to Phone Surveys
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. The most important consideration in comparing the advantages and disadvantages of the four survey designs is ______.
a. how flexible they can be to all fit together
b. the likely response rate they will generate
c. how they will deal with being mailed
d. how unlikely they are to avoid social desirability bias
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: A Comparison of Survey Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. If a survey could possibly have any harmful effects for the respondents, these should be ______.
a. glossed over so as not to affect the outcome of the research
b. withheld from participants until after the research is concluded
c. played down so as not to frighten participants
d. disclosed fully in the cover letter or introductory statement
Learning Objective: 7.5: Discuss the key ethical issues in survey research.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Ethical Issues in Survey Research
Difficulty Level: Medium
24. The researcher may minimize respondents’ distress by ______.
a. interviewing groups of victims at one time
b. providing them with information on helpful services and resources
c. reminding participants that they must complete the interview once it is started
d. proceeding with questions even though they may be embarrassing or uncomfortable for the participant
Learning Objective: 7.5: Discuss the key ethical issues in survey research.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Protection of Respondents
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. A survey question used to identify a subset of respondents who then are asked other questions is a(n) ______ question.
a. skip
b. filter
c. idiosyncratic
d. contingent
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Combining Questions Into an Index
Difficulty Level: Medium
26. The unique combination of questions created in a survey by filter questions and contingent questions are ______ patterns.
a. idiosyncratic
b. contingent
c. skip
d. floater
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Combining Questions Into an Index
Difficulty Level: Medium
27. Questions asking for information such as age, sex, race, ethnicity, income, or religion are known as ______ questions.
a. demographic
b. idiosyncratic
c. exhaustive
d. administration
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Demographic Questions
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. Most surveys now include the option of ______ so those with mixed race/ethnic backgrounds can be identified.
a. marking all categories that apply
b. choosing two categories that apply
c. marking only the most appropriate category
d. marking no race/ethnic categories if none apply
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Demographic Questions
Difficulty Level: Medium
29. No questionnaire should be considered ready for use until it has ______.
a. been posttested
b. been carefully screened by the government
c. undergone careful reading by all members of the university’s top officials
d. been pretested
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Don’t Forget to Pretest!
Difficulty Level: Medium
30. To avoid confusion, the U. S. Census Bureau adopted the following response categories for the variable ‘marital status’ ______.
a. Married, Separated, Divorced, and Never Married
b. Never Married, Married, and Divorced
c. Married, Separated, Divorced, Widowed, and Never Married
d. Married and Not Married
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Demographic Questions
Difficulty Level: Medium
31. Question order and the use of multiple questions to uncover attitudes about emotionally charged attitudes are important because ______.
a. these factors also can influence responses
b. any time emotionally charged attitudes are used, errors can occur
c. they do away with the problems surrounding context effects
d. then the researchers do not need to worry about topic divisions
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Question Order Matters!
Difficulty Level: Medium
32. Most mailed, group, phone, and electronic surveys are ______.
a. loosely structured by the researcher prior to the administration
b. structured in advance by the researcher
c. structured by the administrator of the instrument
d. loosely structured by the interviewer
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Questionnaire Structure
Difficulty Level: Medium
33. One advantage to in-person interviewing is ______.
a. response rates are higher for this survey design than others, when the respondent is approached by a courteous interviewer
b. that interviews don’t have to be long, drawn out designs
c. response rates are almost as high as mail surveys
d. that they are costly, which means the researcher is likely to get very good information
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: In-Person Interviews
Difficulty Level: Medium
34. Mixed-mode surveys allow ______.
a. more than one survey design to play on another’s strengths and therefore make the whole survey much stronger
b. the weaknesses of one survey design to be overcompensated for by another design
c. nonrespondents from one survey to be resurveyed several more times to
d. the strengths of one survey design to compensate for the weakness of another
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Mixed-Mode Surveys
Difficulty Level: Medium
35. To prevent any possibility of harm to subjects due to disclosure of information, it is critical to preserve subject confidentiality by ______.
a. sending follow-up mailings to the respondents at their home addresses to make certain all is well that they are safe
b. phoning subjects to ensure safety
c. using only numbers to identify individuals on their questionnaires
d. releasing contact info, including name and telephone numbers, to an unknown third party related company for follow-up
Learning Objective: 7.5: Discuss the key ethical issues in survey research.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Confidentiality
Difficulty Level: Hard
True/False
1. An omnibus survey covers a range of topics to different social scientists.
Learning Objective: 7.1: Identity the circumstances that make survey research an appropriate methodology.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Questionnaire Development and Assessment
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. An omnibus survey should be guided by a well-defined inquiry.
Learning Objective: 7.1: Identity the circumstances that make survey research an appropriate methodology.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Maintain Focus
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Structurally, questions on surveys generally fall into two categories: those with and those without explicit response choices.
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Writing Survey Questions: More Difficult Than You Think!
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Unless survey questions are clear and convey the intended meaning to respondents, they present a difficult task for researchers.
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Constructing Clear and Meaningful Questions
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Research has shown that questions that are written with more behavior-specific language, such as those used by the NISVS, result in much better recall by respondents.
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Constructing Clear and Meaningful Questions
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Good grammar is a basic requirement for clear questions.
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Avoid Confusing Phrasing and Vagueness
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. When a question is really asking more than one thing, it is called a double-negative question.
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Avoid Double-Barreled Questions
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. People often tend to agree with a statement just to avoid seeming disagreeable.
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Avoid Making Either Disagreement or Agreement Disagreeable
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Asking questions that are not necessary for purposes of their research may make the questionnaire more intrusive than necessary.
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Demographic Questions
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Mixed-mode surveys allow the strengths of one survey design to compensate for the weaknesses of another.
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Mixed-Mode Surveys
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Survey research usually has more ethical dilemmas than field research designs.
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Ethical Issues in Survey Research
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. Likert-type responses generally ask respondents to indicate the extent to which they agree or disagree with statements.
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Utilize Likert-Type Response Categories
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. Floaters are people who see themselves as neutral in their attitudes toward a particular issue.
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Minimize Fence-Sitting and Floating
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. Floaters are respondents who choose a substantive answer even when they do not know anything about a particular question.
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Minimize Fence-Sitting and Floaters
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. Filter questions create skip patterns.
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Utilize Filter Questions
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. Idiosyncratic variation is variation in responses to questions caused by individuals’ reactions to particular words or ideas in the question instead of by variation in the concept that the question is intended to measure.
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Combining Questions Into an Index
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. Special statistics called validity measures help researchers decide whether responses are consistent.
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Combining Questions Into an Index
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. Almost all questionnaires include a section on demographic information such as sex, age, race or ethnicity, income, and religion.
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Demographic Questions
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. The initial statement of the cover letter sets the tone for the entire questionnaire.
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Organization Matters
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. Question order can lead to context effects when one or more questions influence how subsequent questions are interpreted.
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Question Order Matters!
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. Mailed, group, and phone surveys are completed by the respondents themselves.
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Manner of Administration
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. Group surveys are the most expensive type of surveys.
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Cost
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. Drawing a random sample is made more difficult by random digit dialing because it dials numbers that are not published.
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Reaching Sampling Units
Difficulty Level: Medium
24. Cell phone users are harder and more costly to contact in phone surveys.
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Maximizing Response to Phone Surveys
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. To enhance response rate, researchers can offer respondents who complete an online survey a voucher to be used at an eating establishment.
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Electronic Surveys
Difficulty Level: Medium
Short Answer/Essay
1. What are the three attractive features of survey research?
Learning Objective: 7.1: Identity the circumstances that make survey research an appropriate methodology.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Attractive Features of Survey Research
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. What are the three key principles, as described in your text, to guide the design of a questionnaire?
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Questionnaire Development and Assessment
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. What are the two main types of questions? Describe and give an example of each.
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Writing Survey Questions: More Difficult Than You Think!
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. According to your text, what are the four guidelines for writing clear and meaningful questions?
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Constructing Clear and Meaningful Questions
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. What is meant by Make Response Choices Mutually Exclusive? Give an example.
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Make Response Choices Mutually Exclusive
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. What is meant by Make Response Categories Exhaustive? Give an example.
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Make Response Choices Mutually Exclusive
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Describe Likert-type responses.
Strongly Agree | Agree | Disagree | Strongly Disagree |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Learning Objective: 7.3: Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of including “don’t know” and neutral responses among response choices and of using open-ended questions.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Utilize Likert-Type Response Categories
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. What are Fence-Sitters? And what are floaters? As part of your answer, give an example of each.
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Minimize Fence-Sitting and Floating
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Why might a researcher use filter questions in a survey? What are they designed to do? As part of your answer, provide a filter question and skip pattern.
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Utilize Filter Questions
Difficulty Level: Hard
10. How are multiple questions formed into an Index? Why is it used? Explain and give an example.
Learning Objective: 7.3: Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of including “don’t know” and neutral responses among response choices and of using open-ended questions.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Combining Questions Into an Index
Difficulty Level: Hard
11. What are demographic questions? Why are they used in research? As part of your answer, give examples.
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Demographic Questions
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Why is pretesting so important? Give an example.
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Strongly Oppose | Oppose | Neither Oppose nor Favor | Favor | Strongly Oppose |
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Don’t Forget to Pretest!
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. What is a split-ballot design? Give an example. What other organization guidelines are there?
Learning Objective: 7.2: List the different methods for improving survey questions, along with the mistakes you do not want to make when writing questions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Question Order Matters!
Difficulty Level: Hard
14. Name four organizational guidelines should surveys follow, for most effectiveness?
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Question Order Matters!
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Choose any three survey designs. Which design should be used and when? What are the major advantages and disadvantages to the designs?
Learning Objective: 7.4: List the strengths and weaknesses of each mode of survey design, giving particular attention to response rates.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: A Comparison of Survey Designs
Difficulty Level: Hard
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