questionnaire evaluation

• What is one method of distributing questionnaires?

  Handing out in person
• What are closed questions?

  Questions with predetermined answers
• What type of data do closed questions collect?

  Quantitative numerical data
• What are open questions?

  Questions allowing free-form responses
• What type of data do open questions collect?

  Qualitative descriptive data
• What are the advantages of questionnaires?

  • Practical advantages
  • Reliability
  • Hypothesis testing
  • Detachment and objectivity
  • Representativeness
  • Ethical issues

  
• What is a practical advantage of questionnaires?

  Quick and cheap data collection
• What did Connor and Dewson (2001) study using questionnaires?

  Factors influencing university attendance
• Why are questionnaires considered reliable?

  Same questions can be reused in research
• How do postal or online questionnaires enhance reliability?

  No researcher present to influence results

  
• How can questionnaires be useful for hypothesis testing?

  They test cause-and-effect relationships
• What does detachment and objectivity in questionnaires refer to?

  Minimal contact with respondents
• Why is representativeness an advantage of questionnaires?

  They collect data from large populations
• What ethical issues are associated with questionnaires?

  Fewer ethical issues than other methods
• What is a practical problem associated with questionnaires?

  Data can be limited and superficial
• What is a common issue with response rates in questionnaires?

  Low response rates reduce data quality
• What can lead to low response rates in postal questionnaires?

  Faulty questionnaire design
• Why are questionnaires considered inflexible?

  Questions cannot be changed once finalized
• What do questionnaires provide a snapshot of?

  A social reality at one time
• Why might data from questionnaires lack validity?

  They lack personal engagement with subjects
• What are some issues that affect the validity of questionnaire data?

  Lying, forgetting, and 'right answering'
• How can researchers impose their meanings in questionnaires?

  By choosing which questions to ask
• What are the perspectives of positivists and interpretivists on questionnaires?

  Positivists:

  • Favor reliability, generalizability, and representativeness
  • Standardized questions produce replicable data

  
  

  Interpretivists:

  • Reject questionnaires for imposing researcher ideas
  • Seek to understand meanings held by social actors

  
• What do positivists believe about the data produced by questionnaires?

  It produces reliable and replicable data

  
• Why do interpretivists reject questionnaires?

  They impose researchers' frameworks on respondents

  
• What do interpretivists believe questionnaires fail to achieve?

  Validity in understanding social meanings