Exam 10: Questionnaire and Form Design

"Is the respondent informed?", "Can the respondent remember?", and "Can the respondent articulate?", are all questions asked in the ________ stage of the questionnaire design process.

Experiments on mail questionnaires for census of population revealed what about questionnaire form and layout?

"Describe your college experience" and "What is your occupation?" are ________ questions.

When developing questionnaire questions, if you are considering order position bias and the set of all possible response alternatives, you are developing ________ questions.

When developing a questionnaire, the following guidelines: (1)use positive and negative statements, (2)avoid implicit alternatives, and (3)avoid leading questions, are used when ________.

All of the statements below are ways in which the researcher can encourage respondents to provide information they are unwilling to give except ________.

Respondents with responses that are difficult to articulate should be given aids such as pictures, maps, and descriptions to help them articulate their responses.

"Are you in favor of a balanced budget?" is an example of a(n)________.

________ is the testing of the questionnaire on a small sample of respondents for the purpose of improving the questionnaire by identifying and eliminating potential problems.

Filter questions enable the researcher to filter out respondents who are not adequately informed.

The inverted funnel is a strategy for ordering questions in a questionnaire in which the sequence starts with the general questions that are followed by progressively specific questions in order to prevent specific questions from biasing general questions.

Sally was reluctant to answer questions about her personal hygiene until she saw that the survey was sponsored by the American Medical Association. Sally's understanding of who sponsored the survey helped with which aspect of "overcoming the respondent's unwillingness to answer"?

Dichotomous questions cannot have neutral alternatives such as "don't know" or "no opinion."

An alternative that is not explicitly expressed in the options is an explicit alternative.

Deciding if a question is necessary or if several questions are needed rather than one are decisions involved with ________.

Which of the following statements is not a disadvantage of unstructured questions?

The steps in the questionnaire design process are interrelated and the development of a questionnaire will involve some iteration and looping.

________ is socioeconomic and demographic characteristics used to classify respondents.

Pretesting refers to the testing of the questionnaire on a small sample of respondents to identify and eliminate potential problems. Discuss what the researcher expects to gain from pretesting the questionnaire.

The questionnaire or research instrument should be biased in terms of the country in which it will be used.