week 3 Flashcards
survey development process
- Deciding on topic to research
- Formulating research question
- Focus group discussions (if applicable)
- Literature review (background for items included in questionnaire)
- Development of scales & subscales to reflect the construct being researched (informed from focus group & literature review)
- Drafting a tentative set of questions (basis for survey items)
- Critical review to detect common flaws
- Putting questions into a survey format
- Pre-testing using an approximation of proposed data collection procedures
- Revising survey as required
Advantages of Pilot Testing
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Can provide valuable information about how long it takes respondents to complete the survey.
- Respondents can highlight which questions are unclear, were difficult to answer, were ambiguous, or presented confusing response formats.
whats cognitive interviews
- Cognitive interviews provide researchers with a deeper understanding of scale items based on verbal reports of respondents when they describe their thought processes when answering particular questions.
whats four questions are cognitive interviews designed to answer
- Are questions consistently understood?
- Do respondents have the information needed to answer the questions?
- Do the answers accurately describe what respondents have to say?
- Do the answers provide valid measures of what the question is designed to measure?
whats the two most common tasks of cognitive interviews
- To ask respondents to say in their own words what they think the question is asking.
- To ask respondents to explain how they chose a particular answer over others.
conducting mailed surveys
- A maximum of 12 pages is recommended for mail surveys
- Your cover letter should include a brief explanation of the study, an explanation of how you obtained the respondent’s name, why it is important that each “sampled” respondent cooperate, and a short assurance of confidentiality.
- Avoid mailing during holiday periods.
questionnaire design steps summary
- Decide what information is needed.
- Search for existing questions.
- Focus groups.
- Draft new questions/revise existing ones.
- Sequence the questions. 6. Get peer evaluation.
- Revise and test on self/co-workers /peers/family membes.
- Think-aloud interviews.
- Revise/eliminate questions.
- Prepare interviewer instructions for pilot test.
- Pilot test (5-10 cases).
- Revise eliminate questions based on respondent & interviewer comments.
- Pilot test again, if necessary.
- Prepare final interviewer instructions.
- Be prepared to modify questionnaires if interviewer training raises problems.
- After interviewing is complete, debrief interviewers for potential problems.
- Use experience from one study for future planning
different tools for literature review (Talbolt and verrinder)
- Using two visual concepts (visual diagrams, the grid and funnel) to explain the techniques and phases in literature management to inform program planning.
- With the funnel diagram, we described their process of writing, using the funnel shape to illustrate the progressive narrowing of the focus of the review and integration of content from the columns.
- drawing up the grid as we described their process of assembling and reading literature
whats a synthesis
: is the ability to bring together a variety of facts and concepts into a coherent, clearly written discussion, in order to further our understanding and add to the wider academic discourse.
whats a synthesis matrix
: a table in which you can collate the views, ideas, or data according to the themes relevant to answering your research question. Where relevant it is also important to note limitations of the studies, and details regarding their sample size and methodologies, etc.
whats description
\: identifies the process, methodology and/or stages. Describes aims and purpose. Reports facts and information Questions: - what? - Who? - When? - Where? - How? - Why? Point of view: - Neutral position - Balanced and unbiased - Presents a narrative overview of a situation
whats analysis
: Identifies significance and implications to the current study, wider academic discourse, and professional practice. Compares and contrasts information in order to examine connections.
Questions:
- What concepts are important?
- How are they related?
- What tole do different variables play?
- What contributions, strengths or weaknesses are apparents?
- Why should we care?
Point of view:
- Critical
- Expresses evidence based evaluation of the material
- Considers merits and demerits
whats IMRad writing structure stand for
Introduction Method results and Discussion/Conclsion
whats summarising
Briefly outlines the main points of a source without adding your ideas or changing the author’s meaning. You should summarise material when providing an overview of the framework, process, or methods, that are relevant to supporting your point.
whats paraphrasing
: Expresses information or ideas from other sources in a similar number of words as the source text. You should paraphrase material when you want to cite a concept, but the specific words they have use are not crucial to making your point.