STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF QUESTIONNAIRES

Strengths and Weaknesses of Questionnaires



Strengths and Weaknesses of Questionnaires

Introduction

The questionnaire is a set of questions sent in writing to one or more individuals asking them to acquit in a specified period. The scheme is formalized questionnaire to collect information from respondents that contain questions to ask and spaces for the answers, that is, it is the translation of informational purposes of research in specific questions. The most common form of postal survey is questionnaire or by mail, but there are also cases that the questionnaire is applied to an audience previously stated, for example, at Students University. To get an idea of what one thinks of the questionnaires survey yielding review students. The questionnaire is usually sent to institutions including economic and cultural development to schools. Every guest is accompanied by a separate note in which the interviewer explains the reasons for the request relevant survey and collaboration. This paper seeks to determine the importance, advantages and disadvantages of questionnaire in a holistic context.

Types of Questions

A questionnaire will include questions of different types and depending on the same approach to investigate the issue and there may be several of these types:

Open questions: These are questions that allowed the respondent to answer according to whatever the question. With these questions, greater wealth of detail can be obtained in the answers, but they have the disadvantage that the answers are difficult to tabulate.

Closed questions: These are questions that can be answered only by a closed set of alternatives. These questions may be lost wealth in the information, but its quantification is easy.

Questions semi-open (or semi-closed): These are questions of intermediate characteristics between the above two types, which try to never lose great wealth of information at the expense of losing some ease in the tabulation of responses.

Battery questions: They are those that are planned to perform sequentially according to the answer to the question of the previous sequence. Its aim is to deepen information following the thread of successive responses (Haralambos & Holborn 2008, 234).

Evaluation questions: These are questions to obtain information on how the interviewee assesses a number of things or aspects. They can provide an assessment of character numeric or qualitative assessment.

Introductory or motivational questions: Those that are made ??at the beginning of the interview and aimed at awakening the interest of the person being interviewed, trying to motivate and positively predispose to complete a questionnaire. The answers to these questions generally are not taken into account because in most cases their only goal is to facilitate the interview.

Requirements of the Questionnaire

The questionnaire design is a key element in the process of conducting a survey to a large as conditional on the wisdom that is the design of the questions. Hence, the familiar topic that completion of the questionnaire is more an art than a technique is there are principles that guarantee development of an effective and efficient questionnaire. The questionnaire design is a technique learned by the researcher through their experience and ...