Questionnaire Design and Testing

Date:

21/05/2013 - 21/06/2013

Organised by:

Social Research Association

Presenter:

Dr Pamela Campanelli

Level:

Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)

Contact:

Lindsay.adams@the-sra.org.uk

Location:

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Venue:

Grand Connaught Rooms (but this has to be confirmed)

Description:

Through looking at a wide range of pitfalls, this course explores ways to assess the effectiveness of existing questionnaires as well as how to write successful new ones. Drawing on both experience and research findings from questionnaire design experiments, this course is full of practical advice. It covers:

  • general principles of designing questions (e.g., getting started with new questionnaires, common pitfalls to avoid, problematic formats)
  • an exercise in critiquing existing survey questions
  • an exercise in writing new questions
  • creating the questionnaire as a whole
  • special issues for interview versus self-completion design (including the pitfalls of poor visual layout in postal and web surveys)
  • some essentials of pretesting.

Cost:

£195 for SRA members/£260 for non-members

Website and registration:

Register for this course

Region:

Greater London

Keywords:

Survey Research, Survey and Questionnaire Design


Related publications and presentations from our eprints archive:

Survey Research
Survey and Questionnaire Design

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