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Surveys and Questionnaires

Course subject(s) Surveys and Questionnaires

Duration and Associated literature
Hour 1: 40:29
Hour 2: 49:26
Robson, C., (2002) Real world research: A resource for social scientists and practioner-researchers (2nd ed). Malden: MA, Blackwell. (Chapter 8 and 10).
Brinkman, W.-P., (2009) Chapter 3: Questionnaire design, In Handbook of mobile technology research methods, Nova Publisher (draft version available here: LINK plaatsen)

Weblecture 4a
Weblecture 4b

The first hour covers questionnaire set up and formulating questions. Open versus closed questions. Scales of measurement: nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio. Statistical test and scale of measurement. Attitude scales Thurstone and Likert.
The second hour discusses the ways to go from abstract construct to concrete measure. Reliability, split-half method and Cronbach’s Alpha. Types of validity are explained with examples.

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