Questionnaire Selection and Development

Questionnaire Development

Text - read the following from de Vaus
- Chapter 4 Developing Indicators for Concepts
- Chapter 7 Constructing Questionnaires (note section on Wording Questions for useful questions to consider when developing/selecting items)
- Chapter 11 Building Scales
- Formatting Questionnaires: Fanning (2005)
Resources
- Likert Scale Response Options
  - List of Step Descriptions for Five-point Likert Responses
  - Dr. Siegle (U. Conn.) offers these: Likert Response Options
  - Dr. Vagias (Clemson U.) provides these: Likert Options
- Questionnaire Development Checklist
- Creating Electronic Questionnaires
  - How to Build an Online Survey with Google Docs
  - Google Support page: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/87809?hl=en
  - Creating a Survey in Qualtrics
- Supplemental Reading - Brief Presentations on Questionnaire Development:

Constructing Validity: Basic Issues in Objective Scale Development (Clark & Watson, 1995). Detailed article on scale creation and assessment.
Guidelines for Constructing a Survey (Passmore et al. 2002). Less detailed article on questionnaire development.
A Brief Guide to Questionnaire Development (Frary 2002). Brief tips on questionnaire development.
Hints for Designing Effective Questionnaires (Frary 1996) This is an earlier version, but published, of the 2002 material above.
Questionnaire Design from Loughborough University. Very short with suggestions on questionnaire development.
Humorist's View of Survey Questions (Garcia, 1995). This was a forum post illustrating how political questionnaire items were rigging results.

Questionnaire Selection