Creating Questionnaires: An Introduction

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What is a questionnaire?

A way to gather information from a target population

A self-reported form designed to elicit information (correct)

A set of predetermined responses

A method of conducting research

What are open-ended questions?

Questions that offer respondents a number of alternative replies

Questions that provide opportunity to express opinions and answers in their own way (correct)

Questions that are easy to construct and analyze

Questions with predetermined set of responses

What are the characteristics of open-format questions?

They are easy to construct and analyze

They offer respondents a number of alternative replies

They have a predetermined set of responses

They provide true, insightful, and unexpected suggestions (correct)

What do closed-format questions offer respondents?

A predetermined set of responses Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of open-ended questions towards the end of a questionnaire?

To ask respondents about suggestions for changes or improvements Signup and view all the answers

What is a questionnaire used for?

Collecting information Signup and view all the answers

In which type of questions do respondents have to make a choice between two responses, such as yes/no or male/female?

Dichotomous questions Signup and view all the answers

Which type of questions require respondents to make a choice between more than two response alternatives?

Multiple-choice questions Signup and view all the answers

What type of questions ask respondents to select a response that most closely corresponds to their views?

Cafeteria questions Signup and view all the answers

Which type of questions ask respondents to rank their responses from most favorable to least favorable?

Rank order questions Signup and view all the answers

What type of questions are asked further only if the respondents give a particular response to the previous question?

Contingency questions Signup and view all the answers

Which type of question asks respondents to mark their response between two opposite ends of the scale?

Bipolar questions Signup and view all the answers

What type of question asks respondents to judge something along an ordered dimension?

Rating questions Signup and view all the answers

In which type of question are respondents asked to rate the importance of a particular issue on a rating scale of 1-5?

Importance questions Signup and view all the answers

Creating Questionnaires: An Introduction

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