Questionnaire Design
Date:
16/07/2020 - 17/07/2020
Organised by:
Social Research Association and NatCen Social Research
Presenter:
Debbie Collins of NatCen Social Research
Level:
Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact:
Lindsay Adams
T: 0207 255 0695 E: lindsay.adams@the-sra.org.uk
Venue: Online
Description:
This live online course explores how this highly participatory course provides a thorough grounding in questionnaire design. (NatCen trainers) * This course runs over two consecutive mornings and uses Zoom software *
Introduction/overview
This course is aimed at giving participants a thorough grounding in questionnaire design. This course will be highly participatory, with sessions aimed at providing hands-on experience of designing questionnaires and survey questions, for quantitative social research.
Objectives
By the end of the course participants should:
- Have a greater awareness of the different aspects involved in writing good survey questions and questionnaires
- Be able to design questions that:meet research objectives,
- take analysis considerations into account,
- take account of primacy and recency effects,
- avoid ambiguous words or concepts,
- avoid writing multiple questions in one,
- minimise problems of recall error and telescoping.
- Have the tools to critique existing surveys
Topics
- Questionnaire and measurement error
- Concepts to indicators
- General principles of question design
- Designing response options
- Writing questionnaires for different modes
- Reviewing survey questions
- Your questions and questionnaire design challenges
Who will benefit?
A general familiarity with quantitative research methods is assumed, but it is not necessary to have experience of using these methods. You will find this course useful if:
- you are new to survey research
- you need to design survey questionnaires for the first time
- you commission or manage survey research in central or local government, health or other applied policy sectors and need to understand the issues associated with questionnaire design.
Learning outcomes
Participants will have a good awareness of the optimal ways to word individual questions and create the questionnaire as a whole.
Course tutor
Debbie Collins is an experienced survey researcher, methodologist and trainer at NatCen. She led NatCen’s Questionnaire Development and Testing Hub from 2012-2015 and has led methodological reviews for a range of organisations.
Course fee payable to SRA.
Cost:
£220.00 SRA members pay £165
Website and registration:
www.the-sra.org.uk/SRA/training
Region:
International
Keywords:
Survey and Questionnaire Design
Related publications and presentations:
Survey and Questionnaire Design