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Developing a Questionnaire

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Types of Questions

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Types of Questions

Open-ended high validity, low manipulative quality

Closed-ended low validity, high manipulative quality

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Open-ended

An open-ended question is one in which you do not provide any standard answers to choose from.

1.How old are you? ______ years.

2.What do you like best about your job?

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Closed-ended

A closed-ended question is one in which you provide the response categories, and the respondent just chooses one:

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What do you like best about your job?(a) The people(b) The diversity of skills you need to do it(c) The pay and/or benefits(d) Other: ______________________________

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Dichotomous Questions

Dichotomous Question: a question that has two possible responses only

Could beYes/NoTrue/FalseAgree/Disagree

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Interval Level Attempt to measure on an interval level Likert response scale: ask an opinion question

on a 1-to-5, 1-to-7, etc. bipolar scale Bipolar: has a neutral point and scale ends are at

opposite positions of the opinion

Semantic differential: an object is assessed by the respondent on a set of bipolar adjective pairs

Guttman scale: respondent checks each item with which they agree; constructed as cumulative, so if you agree to one, you probably agree to all of the ones above it in the list

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Strongly Disagree

Strongly Agree

1 2 3 4 5

RESPONSE OPTIONS:

Neutral

Strongly Disagree

Strongly Agree

1 2 3 4

New Four–Point Likert Scale

Disagree Agree

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