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A practical guide to survey questionnaire design and evaluation
This text summarizes practical principles, guidelines, and best practices for developing and testing survey questionnaires driven and supported by theoretical and empirical research. It provides a broad overview of literature on questionnaire design, drawing on both theoretical and empirical research.
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Cognitive Interviewing Methodology
\"Providing a comprehensive approach to cognitive interviewing in the field of survey methodology, Cognitive Interviewing Methodology delivers a clear guide that draws upon modern, cutting-edge research from a variety of fields. Each chapter begins by summarizing the prevailing paradigms that currently dominate the field of cognitive interviewing. Then underlying theoretical foundations are presented, which supplies readers with the necessary background to understand newly-evolving techniques in the field. The theories lead into developed and practiced methods by leading practitioners, researchers, and/or academics. Finally, the edited guide lays out the limitations of cognitive interviewing studies and explores the benefits of cognitive interviewing with other methodological approaches.\"--
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Power of Survey Design
\"A master of his craft, Giuseppe Iarossi has drawn on his extensive experience in the field to produce a wonderfully useful volume on how to do and work with surveys of industrial firms.\"- Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Department of Economics, U.C.L.A A practical how-to guide on all the steps involved with survey implementation, this volume covers survey management, questionnaire design, sampling, respondents psychology and survey participation, and data management. A comprehensive and practical reference for those who both use and produce survey data.
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Analysis of the Cognitive Interview in Questionnaire Design
It is common to conduct cognitive testing to evaluate survey questionnaires, but analysis procedures have not been well described. Dr. Willis describes alternative models of coding, analysis, and reporting, to enable researchers to convert cognitive-interview data into meaningful, well-supported, and actionable findings and summary reports.
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Advances in Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation and Testing
A new and updated definitive resource for survey questionnaire testing and evaluation Building on the success of the first Questionnaire Development, Evaluation, and Testing (QDET) conference in 2002, this book brings together leading papers from the Second International Conference on Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation, and Testing (QDET2) held in 2016. The volume assesses the current state of the art and science of QDET; examines the importance of methodological attention to the questionnaire in the present world of information collection; and ponders how the QDET field can anticipate new trends and directions as information needs and data collection methods continue to evolve. Featuring contributions from international experts in survey methodology, Advances in Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation and Testing includes latest insights on question characteristics, usability testing, web probing, and other pretesting approaches, as well as: * Recent developments in the design and evaluation of digital and self-administered surveys * Strategies for comparing and combining questionnaire evaluation methods * Approaches for cross-cultural and cross-national questionnaire development * New data sources and methodological innovations during the last 15 years * Case studies and practical applications Advances in Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation and Testing serves as a forum to prepare researchers to meet the next generation of challenges, making it an excellent resource for researchers and practitioners in government, academia, and the private sector.
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Bible Narratives and Youth Religious Identity: An Italian Exploratory Study
Our article analyzes data from a broader exploratory Italian study on youth imaginaries and the role of narratives in attributing meaning to the world. The research gathered responses from 872 young people (aged 18 to 23) through a digital questionnaire. The data were analyzed with quantitative methodology using descriptive statistics. Our research questions can be formulated as follows: What level of familiarity do respondents have with biblical narratives? What narrative themes and categories do they use to define those stories? In relation to these elements, what are the characteristics of the respondents’ subgroups that defined themselves as “Religious”, “Indifferent/Agnostic”, and “Atheist”? The questionnaire items analyzed in this article provide an account of the respondents’ familiarity with some biblical narratives and their characters (Abraham, Jacob, and Ruth), as well as their choices related to the stories’ narrative themes and categories. The results from our sample open the field for further investigations, particularly in contexts characterized by different religious backgrounds (e.g., Protestant contexts), which may offer more nuanced interpretations of the educational process in relation to religious identity.
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Measuring Livelihoods and Environmental Dependence
Thousands of surveys on rural livelihoods in developing countries are being done every year. Unfortunately, many suffer from weaknesses in methods and problems in implementation. Quantifying households' dependence on multiple environmental resources (forests, bush, grasslands and rivers) is particularly difficult and often simply ignored in the surveys. The results therefore do not reflect rural realities. In particular, 'the hidden harvest' from natural resources is generally too important to livelihoods for development research, policies and practice to ignore. Fieldwork using state-of-the-art methods, and in particular well-designed household questionnaires, thus becomes an imperative to adequately capture key dimensions of rural welfare.
This book describes how to do a better job when designing and implementing household and village surveys for quantitative assessment of rural livelihoods in developing countries. It covers the entire research process from planning to sharing research results. It draws on the experiences from a large global-comparative project, the Poverty Environment Network (PEN), to develop more robust and validated methods, enriched by numerous practical examples from the field. The book will provide an invaluable guide to methods and a practical handbook for students and professionals.
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Best practice versus actual practice: an audit of survey pretesting practices reported in a sample of medical education journals
Background: Despite recommendations from survey scientists, surveys appear to be utilized in medical education without the critical step of pretesting prior to survey launch. Pretesting helps ensure respondents understand questions as survey developers intended and that items and response options are relevant to respondents and adequately address constructs, topics, issues or problems. While psychometric testing is important in assessing aspects of question quality and item performance, it cannot discern how respondents, based upon their lived experiences, interpret the questions we pose.
Aim: This audit study explored whether authors of medical education journal articles within audited journals reported pretesting survey instruments during survey development, as recommended by survey scientists and established guidelines/standards for survey instrument development.
Methods: Five national and international medical education journals publishing survey articles from Jan. 2014 - Dec. 2015 were audited to determine whether authors reported pretesting during survey development. All abstracts within all issues of these journals were initially reviewed. Two hundred fifty-one articles met inclusion criteria using a protocol piloted and revised prior to use.
Results: The number of survey articles published per journal ranged from 11 to 106. Of 251 audited articles, 181 (72.11%) described using a new instrument without pretesting, while 17 (6.77%) described using a new instrument where items were pretested. Fifty-three (21.12%) articles described using pre-existing instruments; of these, no articles (0%) reported pretesting existing survey instruments prior to use.
Conclusions: Findings from this audit study indicate that reported survey pretesting appears to be lower than that reported in healthcare journals. This is concerning, as results of survey studies and evaluation projects are used to inform educational practices, guide future research, and influence policy and program development. Findings apply to both survey developers and faculty across a range of fields, including evaluation and medical education research.
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Are native species of Ria de Aveiro under invasion? The relations between local activities and environmental perceptions on marine biological resources
IntroductionThis study showcases how the end-users of Ria de Aveiro coastal lagoon (Portugal), perceive the threat of invasive alien species (IAS), as well as biodiversity loss, and how it relates to their local activities, environmental identity and risk perception. Previous studies in the region and elsewhere have demonstrated that invasive species might have an impact at the habitats and at the species levels, both with potential negative socio-economic implications for end-users, i.e., for citizens who rely on the ecosystem for their livelihoods. However, this relation is still not well understood.MethodsData drew on face-to-face questionnaires run in situ at the lagoon intertidal flats. Supported by maps, participants were invited to identify the presence of the habitat Zostera noltei (also known as Zostera noltii), and the species Diopatra neapolitana, Hediste diversicolor and Arenicola spp., as well as Ruditapes decussatus, Venerupis corrugata and Ruditapes philippinarum, and inquired about the extraction, preference, and preferred areas. Of the 174 participants, 83% were male, and 68% were private citizens. Their main reason to be in situ at the time of the questionnaire relates to local traditional activities. This study is driven by three main research questions focusing on the perspective of the Ria de Aveiro local community that rely on the lagoon for their livelihoods: i) How is the threat of IAS to native species perceived? ii) How are the relations between local activities and IAS perceived? iii) What is the impact of environmental perceptions on marine biological resources?ResultsThe research questions that drove this study enabled us to conclude that the threat posed by IAS and biodiversity loss is moderate and individuals perceive that most of the species have decreased in the past and/or will decrease in the future. End-user’s evidence spatial-distinct preferences in the lagoon area for species-specific harvesting, including alien species, mainly related to market demand and financial gain.DiscussionThe impact of environmental perceptions on marine biological resources, indicate that the inter-relations between environmental identity and risk perception might have unexpected effects that need to be better understood.
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Quantity and Quality in Social Research
This book focuses upon the debate about quantitative and qualitative research which took root in the 1960s, although many of the central themes go back centuries. The basic terms of the debate have been felt in many of the disciplines which make up the social sciences, especially sociology, social psychology, education research, organization studies, and evaluation research.
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