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Designing Questionnaires

Designing Questionnaires. NYS DELTA Retreat September 4, 2008. What information is needed? How much can be collected and analyzed in a low-cost and practical manner? How accurate will the information be? Will the method get all of the needed information?

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Designing Questionnaires

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  1. Designing Questionnaires NYS DELTA Retreat September 4, 2008

  2. What information is needed? How much can be collected and analyzed in a low-cost and practical manner? How accurate will the information be? Will the method get all of the needed information? What additional methods should and could be used? Will the information appear as credible to decision makers? Will the audience go along with the methods? Who can administer the methods now or is training required? How can the information be analyzed? Pick a method—any method…. Consider the following questions:

  3. Why Use Questionnaires?

  4. Advantages to Using Questionnaires • Questionnaires are cost effective when compared to face-to-face interviews. • Questionnaires are easy to analyze. Data entry and tabulation can be easily done with many computer software packages. • Questionnaires are familiar to most people. • Questionnaires reduce bias. There is uniform question presentation and no middle-person bias. • Questionnaires are less intrusive than telephone or face-to-face information gathering.

  5. When To Use Questionnaires There is no all encompassing rule for when to use a questionnaire. The choice will be made based on a variety of factors: • When resources and money are limited • When it is necessary to protect the privacy of the participants • When corroborating other evaluation findings

  6. A Frequent DELTA application… • Many DELTAs use pre-test & post-tests (questionnaires) to: • Look for individual level change in classes, clubs and groups • Some DELTAs measure (to name a few): • Changes in attitudes about gender norms • Changes in “ist” attitudes • Changes in attitudes about masculinity • Changes in bystander behavior • Changes in activist behavior • Outcomes from logic model and theory of change informs measurement

  7. Example: SAEDA/R PEACE • 4 Day Experience covering the topics: • Violence and Peace • Oppression (many forms) • Domestic violence & teen dating violence • Exposure to curriculum will: • expose students to concepts • nurture awareness • assist with strategies • inspire action

  8. Example: SAEDA/R PEACE • Exposure to curriculum will: • expose students to concepts • nurture awareness • assist with strategies • inspire action • Theory of change: Me-Me/You-Me/World • Me: awareness and action • Me/You: awareness to action • Me/World: awareness to action

  9. Engaging Committees and Others Me/World: awareness to action ACTIVISM Let’s reflect on our consensus workshop…

  10. Others’ Questionnaires - Exercise • Let’s read though our batch of questionnaires… • What stands out to you when you look at the questionnaire? • What do you like and not like? • Which questions make you say, “I kind of like how they said that” • Which questions could help us with measure our ACTIVISM concept—if any?

  11. Exercise How To Construct Questionnaires

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