There are many issues a person have to explore in order to create an ideal questionnaire. Firstly, one have to define the aim of the study, which in the same time can provide the basis for the structure of the questionnaire and developing the content to collect the information required to adress the study aims. Once did it, the researcher have to choose the question type and craft good questions. Last, but not least, establishing the right layout. Basing on the appendix attached, I'm going to create an evaluation.
How can a person decide whether a researcher defined the aim well or poorly? The simplest way is to examine the questions asked and how they realate to the subject of this study. Giving an example from the questionnaire attached, firstly the researcher asks some general questions, aiming at collecting basic knowledge about the learner. Some of them are open-ended and others close-ended like ”Are you a man or a woman?”. Open-ended questions surely allow the learner to write their own answers, however, question like “How long did you live there?” could be easily changed into close-ended one using age range; thus less time is spent on answering the question and a researcher himself spends less time on analyzis. I also believe that questions number 7 and 8 are somewhat cancelling each other out giving the fact, that question of age was already asked; therefore one of them would be sufficient enough. The researcher also uses Likert scale to measure the proficiency of the learners and to find out more about the learner's attitude toward learning Dutch. There is no commentary about the way of checking the answers ( questions 17-20), nor a complete explanation of the scale points (questions 17-20); some of them are simply ommi...
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...ons, which is too much time. Such questionnaires are exhausting and wearying. The researcher though provide a thank you note at the end of the questionnaire, which is the first and the last positive point given from me in this evaluation of this survey.
In conclusion, the provided questionnaire aims at collecting various types of data using short answers questions (e.g. 6) , Likert scale questions (e.g. 17), fill in questions (e.g. 2) or alternative-answer questions (e.g. 10). Many of them are very demanding and confusing at times for the learner, however the researcher, as I previously mentioned, should collect a sufficient amount of data to analyze the subject of his study if all the questions are answered and answered honestly. Taking all this under consideration, I believe this questionnaire need some adjustments to be qualified as a well designed questionnaire.
In order to design a quality survey it is important that the questions are worded so that the group you are targeting can easily understand what you are asking. Jargon must be avoided at all costs. Depending upon your study, answer choices must be available for all types of situation or categories. When asking open ended questions that require a typed response be sure to address only one topic through the question. It is not a quality question if you’re asking someone to describe the positive and negative aspects of their job within the same question. Questions need to be direct and specific. When providing someone with a survey the directions and the purpose of the survey must be clearly stated prior to beginning the survey. To boost participation make sure the directions or the description provides information as to why this survey is beneficial and what the results are going to be used for.
Information was collected using a simple questionnaire consisting of 9, questions based on a Likert scale ranging from 0 (Strongly Disagree) to 4 (Strongly Agree). The layout of the Likert portion of the questionnaire was based on a similar structure to the Revised Life Orientation Test (Bridges, Carver & Scheier, 1994). 3 Yes or No questions were also included. An example of the questionnaire is shown in figure 1.
The questionnaire will be conducted through the face to face method (Bryman, 2008) both on weekdays and weekends; this will allo...
...d for consent to proceed with the study. The participants were given thorough instructions that at any during the survey you can withdrawal your participation in the research, and that this is to benefit research to society. Participation is this survey was voluntary was emphasized. Participants were told that the surveys should take no longer than fifteen minutes and the personal information will remain confidential their results may be shared, but for research purposes only. The questionnaire will have a demographic sheet and a 50 item questionnaire divided into two sections. One part has a four point Likert scale (0= Almost Never, 1=Sometimes, 2= Often, 3 =Almost Always) and the other part is a selection of A or B. It was also reiterated that the participants had the right to withdraw from the research study at any time; there will be no consequences or penalty.
The researchers went through the proper channels to get permission to carry out a study using the students who volunteered to participate. The research was conducted using a variety of different survey methods that were chosen to determine the degree and/...
Once all our interviews had concluded we re-wrote all the questions that we had asked our four respondents comparing them by using a table. From this it was easier to compare and contrast answers, assisting us in our search for re-occurring themes or major differences. For the purpose of anonymity the sample will be referred to as W, X, Y and Z.
The research carried on both quantitative approach and qualitative approach. It began with quantitative approach—questionnaire. Bryman and Bell (2003) asserted that mail or postal questionnaires are most popular forms of questionnaires. Another form—self-completion questionnaire was also common because of the overlap with postal questionnaire to some extent.
The questionnaire was developed in order to gain the background information about the participant. The questions included the participant’s age, sex, religion, ethnic background, if they are in education, if so, the subject(s) studied, and how many years they have been studying, if they are in an exclusive romantic relationship, and if they have children, if so, then how many.
According to the need of the study a formal interview with a structured questionnaire as well as an informal conversation regarding the topic is conducted to get as much information as possible.
Second limitation face by the researcher was conducting the questionnaire. As the respondents were primary school students, researcher need to take a very long time to explain about the questionnaire to the students.
The SPSS software 18.0 has been used for data input and analysis. Every answer in the questionnaire has been computed.
After analyzing the questionnaires we came at the end with these responded statistics by them.
Less number of respondents chosen due to cost and time large sample should have been taken to minimize response errors. Time elapse rate was high when receiving the duly filled questionnaire since questionnaire sent through email to the respondents by sending the constant reminders to fill out the questionnaire and revert back. Uneven distribution of questionnaire as female more willing to answer the questionnaire which may overcome by equally distribution of questionnaire among both male and
We used unstructured questionnaire as research instruments in collecting data in order for the respondent to express his or her opinions from a set of
Section 2 classified in 5-point scale ranging from very dissatisfied (1) to very satisfied (5). And section 3 contained eight items taken from OSD objectives. This article consists of validity of how well the method being used to represent all the components of the variable being measured (Brink et al. 2013:160). Research validity of this article refers to how well an instrument as what measures it is Intended to measure. While, in the reliability of this article has three methods which are referred to the literature: stability, equivalence and internal consistency. Basically, the principles of validity and reliability in this article, are the fundamental cornerstones of the scientific