Writing Survey Questions & Combining Questions in Indexes
Designing Questionnaires
Organizing Surveys
Ethical Issues in Survey Research
100
Research in which information is obtained from a sample of individuals through their responses to questions about themselves or others.
What is Survey Research?
100
A question or statement that contains two negatives,which can muddy the meaning of the question.
What is Double negative?
100
The survey instrument containing the questions in a self-administered survey.
What is Questionnaires?
100
Surveys that are completed by the respondents themselves.
What is mailed, group, and electronic surveys?
100
Primary focus of ethical concern in survey research.
What is confidentiality?
200
Versatility, efficiency, and generalizability.
What are the three features that make survey research so popular?
Daily Double
Given a reason why survey research has all of these.
200
A single survey question that actually asks two questions but allows only one answer.
What is Double-barreled question?
Daily Double
What is an example?
200
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.
What is Cognitive interview?
200
Mailed, group-administered, phone, in-person, and electronic.
What are the five basic social science survey designs?
200
Only ______ should have access to information that could link respondents to their responses.
What is research personnel?
300
A survey that covers a range of topics of interest to different social scientists.
What is the Omnibus survey?
300
maximize the utility of response categories. (one possible response for everyone)
What is one thing the book tells you to do to improve your survey questions?
300
Questions included in a questionnaire or interview schedule to help explain answers to other important questions.
What are interpretive questions?
300
Telephone surveys use ______ in the sampling process.
What is random digit dialing?
300
Surveys meant only to sample opinions at one time and can be completely anonymous.
What is phone surveys?
400
Unique questions or other modifications in a survey administered to randomly selected subsets of the total survey sample, so that more questions can be included in the entire survey or so that responses to different question versions can be compared.
What is a split-ballot design?
400
two things to avoid when writing survey questions are _____, _________.
What is avoid confusing phrasing, minimize the risks of bias, avoid making either disagreement or agreement disagreeable?
400
reliable, complete, accurate, culturally appropriate, and equivalent are all part of a __________ _______ _____.
What is a properly translated questionnaire
400
Critical to the success of a mailed survey.
What is Cover letter?
400
No identifying information is ever recorded to link respondents with their responses.
What is Anonymity?
500
The four types of errors that you try to minimize, so that your survey research can succeed.
What is poor measurement, non-response, inadequate coverage of the population, and sampling error?
500
It is variation in responses to questions that is caused by individuals' reactions to particular word or ideas in the question instead of by variation in the concept that the question is intended to measure.
What is idiosyncratic variation?
500
Series of questions that concern a common theme and have the same response choices.
What is matrix questions?
500
Preferable for asking sensitive questions.
What is mailed surveys?
500
Focused special attention on the maintenance of respondent confidentiality because of ASOC survey.