This practical book presents a coherent, theoretical basis for the construction of valid and reliable questions for interviews and questionnaires. It integrates the empirical findings on question design reported in the social science literature and develops these insights. William Foddy outlines the problems that can arise when framing questions. He has written a broadly useful book for student and professional survey practitioners, particularly academic, government, and market researchers.
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Integrating the empirical findings on question design reported in the social science literature, this practical book presents a coherent, theoretical basis for the construction of valid and reliable questions for interviews and questionnaires.
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Foddy FTW!,
This review is from: Constructing Questions for Interviews and Questionnaires: Theory and Practice in Social Research (Paperback)
William Foddy and Earl Babbie (SURVEY RESEARCH METHODS) tell you all you need to know about conducting successful social research with surveys and questionnaires. Foddy's prose is very accessible, and he uses great examples throughout the text. I only wish there was a more recent edition! (Same argument for Babbie's text.) Nearly all Foddy's guidelines still hold up fifteen years after the publication of the 1993 text, but I really wish a more recent edition would come out in light of the technology boom; the book has no information about Web-based surveys, though there are some great articles available out there.
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Constructing Questions for Interviews and Questionnaires,
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This review is from: Constructing Questions for Interviews and Questionnaires: Theory and Practice in Social Research (Paperback)
I really enjoyed reading this book. It is very clearly written, and gives examples all the way through about the ways in which design of questions will influence the responses to them. Foddy gives a multitude of tips, backed up by research about questionnaire design, about how to standardise questions and get responses to the questions you intended to ask.Highly recommended
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There is no doubt that the use of verbal data has come to dominate the social sciences. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prior specific questions, stimulus centred, piloting questions, social generality, double interview, most methodologists, summated scales, stimulus series, different respondents, summated rating scales, question threat, verbal data, response options, response distributions, magnitude scaling, format effects, substantive responses, editing rules, closed questions, tendency for respondents, response framework Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Michigan Survey Research Center, Respondent Decodes, Interviewer Decodes, Interviewer Encodes, Respondent Encodes, Supreme Court, American Institute of Public Opinion, Strongly Strongly New!
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There is no doubt that the use of verbal data has come to dominate the social sciences. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prior specific questions, stimulus centred, piloting questions, social generality, double interview, most methodologists, summated scales, stimulus series, different respondents, summated rating scales, question threat, verbal data, response options, response distributions, magnitude scaling, format effects, substantive responses, editing rules, closed questions, tendency for respondents, response framework Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Michigan Survey Research Center, Respondent Decodes, Interviewer Decodes, Interviewer Encodes, Respondent Encodes, Supreme Court, American Institute of Public Opinion, Strongly Strongly New!
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- Surveying Subjective Phenomena. Volumes 1 & 2. (Vol 1 & 2) by Charles F. Turner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Research Methods in Social Relations by Rick H. Hoyle in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Introduction to Social Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches (Essential Resource Books for Social Research) by Keith F Punch on page 191, and Back Matter
- Introduction to Social Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches by Keith F Punch on page 196, and Back Matter
- Research Methods in Management: A concise introduction to research in management and business consultancy by Geoff Lancaster on page 153, and Back Matter
- Research Design in Social Research by David de Vaus in Back Matter
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