SURVEY & QUESTIONNAIRE

A good questionnaire should be...

• have embarrassing questions

• biased

• short simple and concrete

What can be described as a questionnaire?

• a set of survey questions given to researchers

• a set of essays given to researchers

• a set of survey questions given to respondents

• a set of essays given to respondents

Why are questionnaire distributed in the first place?

• To extract general information

• To extract potential information

• To extract biased information

• To extract specific information

It is not a good idea to pretest your questionnaire before actually distributing them to the public.

• True

• False

Which one below is not a type of questionnaire design?

• Ranking

• Multiple choice

• Fill in the blank

• Open ended

Which of the following is INCORRECT?

• Questionnaire should be brief and complete

• We can just adopt and make changes to existing questionnaire to become ours with credit

• The people who answer the questionnaire should be those who are from the population targeted by the researchers

• The longer the questionnaire is, the better result it will bring

Which of the following steps can be taken to improve response rates to postal questionnaires?

• Write a personalized covering letter to introduce the research

• Enclose a stamped addressed envelope with a postal questionnaire

• Send out polite reminder letters

• All of the above

This refers to a paper and pencil data gathering method wherein the subject or respondent completely answers a series of questions.

• interview method

• question and answer method

• methodology

• questionnaire

^{When researchers want a better understanding of a problem they choose}

• closed questions

• open ended questions

A disadvantage of open-ended questions are:

• the answer is in respondent's own words

• allows probing

• provides insights

• response rates are lower