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USING QUESTIONNAIRES. Steps to a Successful Survey. Step 1 – What do you want to know? Step 2 – What is the audience? Step 3 - Audience + Purpose = Design Step 4 – Pilot survey Step 5 – Gather Information Step 6 - How will this information be used? Step 7 - Celebrating your success. .
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USING QUESTIONNAIRES ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
Steps to a Successful Survey • Step 1 – What do you want to know? • Step 2 – What is the audience? • Step 3 - Audience + Purpose = Design • Step 4 – Pilot survey • Step 5 – Gather Information • Step 6 - How will this information be used? • Step 7 - Celebrating your success. ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
What do you want to know? • Be clear about the goal of the questionnaire. • What will it accomplish? • What do you want to find out? • What information do you require - Opinions, Preferences, Ideas, Priorities, etc? ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
What is the audience? • How are you going to use the questionnaire? • Identify who should be interviewed? • How will you select the sample? • How big should the sample be? ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
Audience + Purpose = Design • How should you write the questions? • What will you do with the responses? • Have you included one open-ended type question? • Have you included a copy of the questionnaire in the appendix of the investigation? ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
Pilot survey • Are the instructions clear and were the questions understood? • Are the alternative options appropriate? • Are the answer what you expected? • Can the responses be presented as charts, graphs and tables. • Do you need to modify the questionnaire? ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
Gather Information • Have you completed the survey? • Have you collated responses using tally charts? • Have you recorded results in a spreadsheet? • Have you included a copy of the spreadsheet in the appendix of the investigation? ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
How will this information be used? • Have you used the most appropriate chart, graph or table to present the results? • Have you used the evidence from the questionnaire to form a conclusion about local/Wales perspective of the Individual Investigation? ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
Celebrating your success • Does your evidence contribute to all assessment criteria? • Planning – Have you explained why you designed and used a questionnaire, why and how you selected your sample, and how the results will be analysed? • Using Sources – Have you included questionnaire and results? • Presentation – Have you used a variety of charts, graphs and tables to present the results? • Conclusion and evaluation – Have you drawn conclusion from responses and evaluate how well the survey, questionnaire and sample provided required evidence? ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
Celebrating your success ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
Types of Questions • Two important aspects are structure of the questions and the types of response formats for each question. • There are many different types of questions. • The most common are closed and open questions. ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
Closed (or multiple choice) questions • Respondent choose an option and are asked to tick or circle the chosen answer. • These questions provide data which is easy to present in the form of a chart, graph or table. ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
Two choices questions This type should be limited to only 1 or 2. Did you watch television at all yesterday? Yes / No Do not present in pie chart or bar chart, just state a fraction or percentage. ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
Multiple Choice questions Which of these shops do you prefer? Next / River Island / Top Shop / Primark Present as bar chart if interested in how many for each option but use a pie chart if proportion of the whole is important. ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
Number scales Make sure categories do not overlap, they must be mutually exclusive. 1. How old are you? Under 20 20 – 30 31 – 40 41 – 50 51 – 60 61 or more 2. How often do you watch TV on a typical day? Less than 1 hour 1 – 3 hours more than 3 hours Present as bar chart if interested in how many for each option but a pie chart if proportion of the whole is important. ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
Rank order Please indicate, in rank order, your preferred chocolate bar, putting 1 next to your favourite through to 5 for your least favourite. Double Decker …….. Crunchie …….. Wispa …….. Mars Bar …….. Creme Egg …….. Present as a table or component bar chart ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
Agreement scale 4 options ensure a choice is made, with 5 options many choose the middle. How much do you agree with the following statement? Assessment by coursework is easier than assessment by examination. Strongly agree Agree Disagree Strongly disagree ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
Rating scale 1. How would you rate this product? Excellent Good Fair Poor 2. On a scale of 1 to 5 where 1 is not interested at all and 5 is very interested. How interested are you in using this exhibit in an exhibition? 1 2 3 4 5 Present as bar chart if interested in how many for each option but a pie chart if proportion of the whole is important. ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
Open-ended questions • Respondents answer in their own words. • These questions can be difficult to analyse. • Should be at the end of the questionnaire. ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1
What are your favourite TV programmes? (Please specify their titles) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What do you think are the main causes of racism? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADVANCED/COMMUNITY/5.1