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  • Survey research <\/em><\/strong>is a quantitative method whereby a researcher poses some set of predetermined questions to an entire group, or sample, of individuals; there are many types of surveys, including: cross-sectional, longitudinal, trend, panel, cohort, and retrospective.<\/li>\r\n \t
  • Cross-sectional surveys <\/em><\/strong>are those that are administered at just one point in time, whereas, longitudinal surveys <\/em><\/strong>are those that enable a researcher to make observations over an extended period of time. Three of the more common types include: trend, panel and cohort surveys. Retrospective surveys <\/em><\/strong>are similar to longitudinal surveys in that they deal with changes over time, but, like a cross-sectional study, they are administered only once.<\/li>\r\n \t
  • Administration of surveys <\/em><\/strong>can be produced in hard copy format and either mailed or administered in person. Surveys can also be sent through the internet.<\/li>\r\n \t
  • Survey questions <\/em><\/strong>are usually close-ended and should be designed so that they are relevant, and within the knowledge and experience of the participant.<\/li>\r\n \t
  • Close-ended questions <\/em><\/strong>provide respondents with a limited set of options for their responses and are the most common type of survey questions. However, surveys often include open-ended<\/em><\/strong> questions too. These types of questions do not include response options. Rather, respondents are asked to reply to the question in their own way, using their own words.<\/li>\r\n \t
  • Effective survey questions are not double-barreled, provide mutually exclusive choice options, and avoid negative language or regionally or culturally specific language.<\/li>\r\n \t
  • Social desirability<\/em><\/strong> refers to the idea that respondents will try to answer questions in a way that presents them in a favourable light.<\/li>\r\n \t
  • A filler question <\/em><\/strong>is designed to identify some subset of survey respondents who are asked additional questions that are not relevant to the entire sample.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"
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    • Survey research <\/em><\/strong>is a quantitative method whereby a researcher poses some set of predetermined questions to an entire group, or sample, of individuals; there are many types of surveys, including: cross-sectional, longitudinal, trend, panel, cohort, and retrospective.<\/li>\n
    • Cross-sectional surveys <\/em><\/strong>are those that are administered at just one point in time, whereas, longitudinal surveys <\/em><\/strong>are those that enable a researcher to make observations over an extended period of time. Three of the more common types include: trend, panel and cohort surveys. Retrospective surveys <\/em><\/strong>are similar to longitudinal surveys in that they deal with changes over time, but, like a cross-sectional study, they are administered only once.<\/li>\n
    • Administration of surveys <\/em><\/strong>can be produced in hard copy format and either mailed or administered in person. Surveys can also be sent through the internet.<\/li>\n
    • Survey questions <\/em><\/strong>are usually close-ended and should be designed so that they are relevant, and within the knowledge and experience of the participant.<\/li>\n
    • Close-ended questions <\/em><\/strong>provide respondents with a limited set of options for their responses and are the most common type of survey questions. However, surveys often include open-ended<\/em><\/strong> questions too. These types of questions do not include response options. Rather, respondents are asked to reply to the question in their own way, using their own words.<\/li>\n
    • Effective survey questions are not double-barreled, provide mutually exclusive choice options, and avoid negative language or regionally or culturally specific language.<\/li>\n
    • Social desirability<\/em><\/strong> refers to the idea that respondents will try to answer questions in a way that presents them in a favourable light.<\/li>\n
    • A filler question <\/em><\/strong>is designed to identify some subset of survey respondents who are asked additional questions that are not relevant to the entire sample.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"menu_order":10,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-346","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":297,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/jibcresearchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/jibcresearchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/jibcresearchmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/jibcresearchmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/jibcresearchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/jibcresearchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/346\/revisions\/1144"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/jibcresearchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/297"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/jibcresearchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/346\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/jibcresearchmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/jibcresearchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/jibcresearchmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/jibcresearchmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}