Exam 8: How to Construct a Questionnaire

When participants respond in a particular way regardless of content, this is called:

Marley just completed a questionnaire. She disagreed with every item on the questionnaire. This tendency is known as a(n):

A technique used to measure the meaning participants attach to various attitudinal objects or concepts is called:

The question, "Do you think that students should be able to drop out of school at age 16" is which type of question?

Explain each of the 15 principles of questionnaire construction.

A question that combines two or more issues or attitude objects in the item stem is a:

Mutually exclusive categories do not overlap.

A researcher wrote the following item stem for a 5-point rating scale. "Don't you agree that the University needs a football team." What is the problem with this item?

The ordering of categories (positive to negative or negative to positive) in rating scales does not affect response patterns.

If the literature review finds a questionnaire that meets the researcher's needs, he or she does not need to create a new questionnaire.

When researchers want to limit who answers a set of questions they often use:

A difference between a numerical rating scale and a fully anchored rating scale is that the latter scale has a descriptor on all points on the scale.

Reverse-worded items:

Describe the five major steps in questionnaire construction.

Compare and contrast when open-ended and closed-ended questionnaires should be used in questionnaires.

Bill is developing a questionnaire. Which of the following should he do in constructing the questionnaire?

Rating scale questions would more likely appear on a(n):

The set of words forming a question or statement is called the:

According to your textbook, which of the following is recommended?

List and explain the five major steps in questionnaire construction.