Questionnaire Design
Sessions and Times
One session, 09:30 to 16:30.
Overview
This course is aimed at giving participants a thorough grounding in questionnaire design. This course will be highly participatory, with sessions aimed at providing hands-on experience of designing questionnaires and survey questions, for quantitative social research.
Topics Covered
- Questionnaire and measurement error
- Concepts to indicators
- General principles of question design
- Designing response options
- Writing questionnaires for different modes
- Reviewing survey questions
- Your questions and questionnaire design challenges
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course participants will have a greater awareness of the different aspects involved in writing good survey questions and questionnaires and have the tools to critique existing surveys.
Participants will have a good awareness of the optimal ways to word individual questions and create the questionnaire as a whole and be able to design questions that:
- meet research objectives.
- take analysis considerations into account.
- take account of primacy and recency effects.
- avoid ambiguous words or concepts.
- avoid writing multiple questions in one.
- minimise problems of recall error and telescoping.
Target Audience
Attendees should have a general familiarity with quantitative research methods, but it is not necessary to have experience of using these methods. Attendees will find this course useful if they are new to survey research, need to design survey questionnaires for the first time or commission or manage survey research in central or local government, health or other applied policy sectors and need to understand the issues associated with questionnaire design.
Cost
This course is offered at discounted rates for Social Research Association members.
£165 for SRA members
£220 for non-members.