Questionnaires

Question 1

What is a closed ended question?

Answer 1

Respondents must choose from a limited range of possible answers that the researcher has decided in advance

Question 2

What is an open ended question?

Answer 2

Respondents are free to give whatever answer they wish

Question 3

Name 6 advantages of questionnaires

Answer 3

• ethical
• representativeness
• detachment & objectivity
• hypothesis testing
• reliability
• practical

Question 4

How are questionnaires practical?

Answer 4

They are a quick and cheap means of gathering large amounts of data from large amounts of data from large amounts of people, widely spread geographically, especially if a postal or online questionnaire is used

Question 5

Give an example of how questionnaires are practical

Answer 5

Helen Connor & Sara Dewson (2001)
Posted nearly 4,000 questionnaires to students at 14 higher education institutions around the country in their study of the factors influencing the decisions of w/c students to go to university

Question 6

Give 2 more practical advantages of questionnaires

Answer 6

• there is no need to recruit and train interviewers or observers to collect the data, because respondents complete and return the questionnaires themselves
• the data is usually easy to quantify, particularly where pre-coded closed ended questions are used, and can be processed quickly by computer to reveal the relationships between different variables