Creating a Questionnaire Part 2. Questionnaire Refinement.

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Creating a Questionnaire Part 2

Questionnaire Refinement

Anchors: Are not these folks!

Anchors: Question……… Agree: :Disagree Strongly Agree:……………Strongly Disagree

A Staple Scale has only ONE anchor…… Why?

Forced Choice……. Smoking should be banned in cars? Agree: : Disagree A forced choice questions does not have the possibility of a neutral response.

Neutral allowed…. Smoking should be banned in cars? Agree: : Disagree But… what does a “3” mean? Neutral No opinion Don’t know!?

Solution: Add a “Don’t know” Or a “No Opinion”

Steps in Creating Questionnaire

Cover Letter Possible Inclusions 1.Make it personal 2.Ask a favor 3.Importance of research and its purpose 4. Importance of respondents 5. Importance of replies 6.Importance of replies even if reader is not qualified to answer 7. How the respondent may benefit 8. Completing the questionnaire will take little time

Cover Letter Possible Inclusions 9. The questionnaire can be answered easily 10. A stamped envelope is enclosed 11. How respondent was selected 12. Answers are anonymous or confidential 13. Offer to send results on results 14. Note of urgency 15. Appreciation 16.Importance of sender (official and response rate) 17. Importance of sender’s organization 18.Description and purpose of incentive

Cover Letter Possible Inclusions 19. Avoid bias 20. Style 21. Format and appearance 22. Brevity

Emergency Project to Support Col. North and the President's Freedom Fight in Central America (1980s) Col North complained of Congress' failure to give consistent aid to the anti-communist freedom fighters in Nicaragua. Should Congress continue aid to the Nicaraguan Freedom fighters? a) Yes, they're battling for our freedom too. b) No, abandon Central America to the communists.

November 1992 Holocaust Poll conducted by the Roper Organization for the American Jewish Committee: "Does it seem possible or does it seem impossible to you that the Nazi extermination of the Jews never happened?"

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1995 SURVEY 3.We spend over $20 billion each year on drug law enforcement – over two-thirds of the total drug control budget. Should other methods such as treatment programs and drug education be allocated a higher percentage of that budget? __ Yes. Our tax money would be more effectively spent funding treatment and prevention programs. __ No. We should continue funding punitive measures of drug enforcement and build more jails.

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Examples of Bad Questionnaires