Practical Guide: Write Survey and Interview Questions
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OER projects that wish to conduct surveys or interviews with stakeholders can benefit from careful formulation of their questions. Below are suggestions for composing and compiling your questions.
1. Brainstorm what you want to know. Based upon your overreaching case study questions, jot down a list of things that you want to know from your interview or survey participants.
2. Draft your questions. For interview questions, try to imagine the possible range of answers that might arise, and where participants might get stumped. From that, create prompts that you can use for each of your questions in case you need to spur their thinking, and get them talking and reflecting on a particular point or issue. For surveys, consider the type of questions to use. A mix of types is fine, it all depends on what you want to know:
3. Consider the sequence of the questions. It is often a good idea to start with a question that is easy to answer, but which is interesting to the participants. You might also try to build the questions so that the ideas flow logically. 4. Consider the length of the survey. Sometimes even 10 or fewer questions are enough to get at the central issues, especially for longer, open ended responses. Long, extensive surveys can be off-putting. PointersIf you need help in formulating your survey questions, you might consider using an online do-it-yourself service like SurveyMonkey.com, which helps you construct questions and provides tools for easily capturing and analyzing survey responses.
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ContentsOverview of the Framework Components 1. Determine Your Burning Case Study Questions 2. Develop Ways to Collect Your Case Study Data
3. Collect Data to Answer Your Case Study Questions 4. Work with Your Data to Develop Insights |
