Questionnaires

Question 1

What is the definition of ‘self report method’?

Answer 1

Any method in which a person s asked to state or explain their own feelings, opinions, behaviours and/or experiences relating to a given topic

Question 2

What is the definition of ‘questionnaire’?

Answer 2

Set of written questions used to assess a person’s thoughts and/or experiences

Question 3

What are open questions in questionnaires?

Answer 3

• Questions that have no fixed answer and allows the person to give opinions and feelings
• They provide qualitative data

Question 4

What are closed questions in questionnaires?

Answer 4

• Questions that have fixed choices like tick boxes
• Provide quantitative data

Question 5

What are 3 advantages to using questionnaires?

Answer 5

• Cost effective
• Produce large amounts of data
• Easy to distribute to large amounts of people

Question 6

What are the 2 disadvantages to using questionnaires?

Answer 6

• Can produce demand characteristics
• Can produce response bias

Question 7

What 3 things shouldn’t you do when writing questions for questionnaires?

Answer 7

• Don’t overuse jargon
• Don’t use emotive language and leadings questions
• Don’t use double barelled and double negatives