Questionnaire Construction Guidelines

1. QuestionnaireConstructionGuidelines C/IL 102 Dr. Beidler

2. Questionnaire Construction • Avoiding human subjects issues • Types of responses to questions • Demographic questions • QMS

3. Human Subjects • You cannot ask questions regarding a person’s preferences, desires, and interests on delicate or private matters • How much booze do you drink each night? • Are you straight, bi, or gay? • What is your drug of choice?

4. Human Subjects • You can ask them what they think • How many beers do you think a typical sophomore drinks on weekend? • What percentage of the University do you think is straight? • What do you believe is the college student drug of choice?

5. Types of Responses Easy Analysis Hard Analysis Text Boxes Small free form response Text Areas Large free form response • Radio Buttons Exactly one response • Check Boxes Many responses (none to all)

6. Types of Responses • Radio responses • You want most of your questions to have this type of response • Select exactly one of two or more choices • Example: • Yes | No • Female | Male • Freshman | Sophomore | Junior | Senior | Other • Scaled: Terrible | Bad | OK | Good | Great Scales of 5 choices seem to work best.

7. Types of Responses • Check box responses • You may want to have some of these • Choose zero or more from a list • May include others options. • Examples: • List of sports • List of foods • Include others so the client can fill in the sports you forgot

8. Types of Responses • Free form responses • Text box • Space for a word or phrase • Text area • Space for an extended response • Useful in a real questionnaire as a space for detailed responses • Keep these types of responses to a minimum • Hard to quantify.

9. Questions that quantify your audience Demographics provide a standard for measuring other responses. Use radio responses Gender Class College Home state Choose a few of these that are appropriate for your questionnaire. Age [Radio groups <18 [18,19] … Avoid race, religion, … Don’t forget others Demographic Questions

10. Using QMS • Building a questionnaire • Initialize • Title • Brief description • Build/Edit • Finalize • Populate • Analyze

11. QMS

12. Team Formation Title : Abstract : Team members : Create Form

13. Team Formation • All errors during team formation will significantly reduce the grade for that part of the assignment for all team members. NO EXCEPTIONS • The Abstract: A couple of sentences that provide a basic overview and might entice people to complete your questionnaire.

14. Building A Questionnaire • Add entries one at a time • Select type of entry with radio button on the left • Fill in corresponding information on the right • Submit addition

15. Building A Questionnaire • Add entries one at a time • Select type of entry with radio button on the left • Fill in corresponding information on the right • Submit addition

16. Building A Questionnaire • Five types of entries • Statements • For inserting explanations and directions • Radio Button Group • Check box group • Text box • Text area

17. Building A Questionnaire

18. Building A Questionnaire

19. Building A Questionnaire • As items are added a sample of the questionnaire appears at the top of the page • Questions may be moved around or deleted

20. Building A Questionnaire

21. Building A Questionnaire • No one can access your questionnaire while you are editing • It must finalized to be made available.

22. Building A Questionnaire

23. Using QMS • Once your questionnaire is finalized then others can reply to it • Email your friends • Have them email their friends • Have them email their friends • Have them email their friends • …