Exam 4: Surveys

The following informed consent statement is most appropriate for which kind of research? The City of Wilmington is conducting a survey of citizens' opinions about the city parks. The information will be used by the city council in making funding decisions for current and new parks projects. The survey will take about 10 min to complete. Your responses are entirely anonymous. If you have any questions about this survey, you may contact the mayor's office at mayor@wilmington.gov

Would your research be confidential or anonymous? Explain the difference, and why you choose to make it the one you indicated.

What is your sampling frame?

Based on the hypothesis that you have just written, conceptualize one variable that you would need to use in order to test your hypothesis.

Write one hypothesis to test your research question.

You are conducting applied research for a nonprofit. You got a grant to do the research, so you have a decent budget, and you have several months to collect the data. Your population is military veterans who served for the 50 years between 1960 and 2015. You want to ask them questions related to their experiences with PTSD. You are especially interested in reaching low-income and homeless veterans, since your literature review suggests they may be more likely to experience untreated PTSD symptoms. Which mode of delivery would be the best choice, given the situation?

How would you clean your data, and why is this necessary?

You are conducting a study on attitudes about budget cuts to education. Write your research question.

What would you do to increase the response rate for a PHONE survey?

Based on the hypothesis that you have just written, design a survey item for one variable that you would need to measure. What level of measurement did you use and why?

The higher one's income, the more likely they support enhanced punishment for gang-related crimes. Which is the INDEPENDENT variable in this hypothesis?

Which mode of delivery would you use and why?

List four things that you will do to protect your participants, OTHER than getting their informed consent.

How will you pretest your survey?

You are doing a study regarding college students' attitudes about the effects of your state's budget problems. Write your research question.

How will you pretest your survey?

If you conduct phone surveys, but the survey administrators don't all read the questions in the exact same way to every respondent, what aspect of data quality is being threatened?

In the study you are doing using the research question you just wrote, what is your population?

You ask people from the population you are studying to pretest your survey by having them take the survey and asking them questions about how they interpreted the questions and why they chose the answers they did. This form of pretesting is called ______.

Thinking about the mode of delivery you chose, list two problems you would be likely to have with getting a good response rate for this study, and what you would do to try to overcome these and thus maximize your response rate?