by John Amy | Mar 19, 2014 | Questionnaires A2
Here is a list of dos and don’ts when designing questionnaires DO… DON’T… Give clear instructions and explanations on how to complete the questions. Make your questionnaire too long. Have a clear layout to follow and record answers. Have too few categories...
by John Amy | Mar 19, 2014 | Questionnaires A2
In pairs, work through the first few stages of designing a survey – choose a topic, formulate a hypothesis and then design ten questions to test that hypothesis. Use mainly closed-ended questions, but include a couple of open-ended ones. Now carry out a pilot...
by John Amy | Mar 19, 2014 | Questionnaires A2
In pairs, write a short questionnaire to assess people’s attitudes towards street crime and white collar crime. How would you operationalise your measure of the extent to which behaviour is socially acceptable/ non-acceptable?
by John Amy | Mar 19, 2014 | Questionnaires A2
Question 1: Why is non-response such a problem for sociologists? Question 2: Not all questionnaires are sent through the post. Sometimes questionnaires are given out to a group of people to fill in themselves and then collected in by the researcher afterwards. What...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Questionnaires A2
The researcher prepares a limited range of possible answers from which the respondent chooses. They provide a clear focus to questions and can be easily analysed and fed into a computer. They are carried out at one moment in time, so are unable to show any change over...
