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Principles of survey research part 4: questionnaire evaluation
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This article discusses how to avoid biased questions in survey instruments, how to motivate people to complete instruments and how to evaluate instruments in the context of survey evaluation.Abstract:
This article discusses how to avoid biased questions in survey instruments, how to motivate people to complete instruments and how to evaluate instruments. In the context of survey evaluation, we discuss how to assess survey reliability i.e. how reproducible a survey's data is and survey validity i.e. how well a survey instrument measures what it sets out to measure.read more
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