QUESTIONNAIR
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ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES
REVIEW: TRUE OF
FALSE
•1. A critique is a paper that gives a critical
assessment of a particular work.
•2. A critical approach that deals with socio-
economic disparity is known as formalism.
•3. A concept paper is an academic work that
presents two sides of an issue.
REVIEW: TRUE OF FALSE
•4. Ideas and concepts can be elaborated
through definition, explication and
clarification.
•5. An argument is a statement used to
assert one’s opinion or stand.
LEARNING TASKS PER GROUP
- CONTENT (50)
- PRESENTATION (35)
-GROUP DYNAMICS (15)
LEARNING
TASKS:
Task 1- Definition and Functions of a Questionnaire (WORD
MAP)
Task 2- Parts of a Questionnaire (OUTLINE)
Task 3- Steps on How to Develop a Questionnaire (FLOW
CHART)
Task 4- Characteristics of a Good Question (CHART)
Task 5- Analysis of a Sample Questionnaire (DESCRIPTION
AND EXPLANATION)
LEARNING
TASKS:
Task 4- Characteristics of a Good Question (CHART)
Task 5- Analysis of a Sample Questionnaire
(DESCRIPTION AND EXPLANATION)
PRESENTATION OF OUTPUTS
- CONTENT (50)
- PRESENTATION (35)
-GROUP DYNAMICS (15)
EFFECTIVE QUESTIONS
1. Write short and simple
questions to avoid
misinterpretations.
Example:
Given the current trend of more hits,
more home runs, longer games in
general, and more injuries in baseball
today, do you think that steroid use
should continue to be banned even
though it is not enforced?
Better:
Steroid use has both positive
and negative effects on
baseball. Do you think that
steroid use should be banned?"
2. Avoid leading questions,
wording that influences
respondents to consider a
subject in a weighted manner,
or injects a preference or
opinion.
Example:
Do you hate the
president of the
Philippines?
3. Appropriately Open-Ended and Closed-
Ended Questions
Use open-ended questions when
responses need to be elaborated by the
respondents for exhaustive and
comprehensive data gathering. They’re
more suited to exploratory research that
looks to describe a subject based on trends
and patterns.
Closed-Ended questions are popular
because they provide greater uniformity or
responses and are easily processed
compared to open-ended questions.
However, closed-ended questions the
response categories should be exhaustive
and mutually exclusive. In other words, all
possible options should be provided.
4. Question Clarity
•Avoid ambiguities and vague
words (e.g. usual, regular,
normal)
•Do you watch television regularly?
•Better: How often do you watch television?
5. Don’t use double-barreled questions
•Ask one question at a time. Avoid asking
2 questions, imposing unwarranted
assumptions, or hidden contingencies.
Whenever you use ‘and’ on a question or a
statement, check if it is double-barreled.
Do you find the classes you
took during your first
semester in SHS more
demanding and interesting
than your JHS classes?
TYPES OF
QUESTIONS
TYPES OF
QUESTIONS
TYPES OF
QUESTIONS
TYPES OF
QUESTIONS
TYPES OF
QUESTIONS
TYPES OF
QUESTIONS
ORDERING THE QUESTIONS
(ADAPTED FROM CONTEMPORARY COMMUNICATION RESEARCH BY SMITH, M.J., 1988)
ORDERING THE QUESTIONS
(ADAPTED FROM CONTEMPORARY COMMUNICATION RESEARCH BY SMITH, M.J., 1988)
TESTING A QUESTIONNAIRE
(ADAPTED FROM CONTEMPORARY COMMUNICATION RESEARCH BY SMITH, M.J., 1988)
TESTING A QUESTIONNAIRE
(ADAPTED FROM CONTEMPORARY COMMUNICATION RESEARCH BY SMITH, M.J., 1988)
TESTING A QUESTIONNAIRE
(ADAPTED FROM CONTEMPORARY COMMUNICATION RESEARCH BY SMITH, M.J., 1988)
REMEMBER:
•Effective questionnaires contain
basic introduction on how to
complete it. It also needs an
introduction and questions and
content are spread out and
properly organized or uncluttered
to avoid confusion.
•Page layout, font type and size,
spacing and the type of paper are
some of the physical aspects of a
questionnaire that a researcher
needs to keep in mind.
•
•The purpose of testing a
questionnaire is to check for the
extent of how the respondents
can understand the questionnaire
ensuring its efficacy. There is no
perfect questionnaire in just one
seating.
•Even professional researchers TEST
AND REVISE questionnaires
because a researcher can never
perfectly determine how the
population under study thinks and
responds which in the first place is
the reason why the research is
conducted.
•
Direction: Write T if the statement is True and F if it
is False.
_____1. A questionnaire is the same as a survey.
_____2. When an office staff handed you a piece of
paper that asks you to put the type of smiley to rate
your experience in their office is an example of a
survey question.
_____3. A questionnaire should be anchored on the
research problem.
•
_____4. In designing a questionnaire, a
researcher can always include all the
questions that come into his/her mind.
_____5. Likert-Scale questionnaire items are
best used to measure the feeling or opinion.
•
_____6. It is always good to appeal to the
emotions of the respondents in creating
questions.
_____7. Arrangement of questions does not
matter as long as it will provide the information
needed from the respondents.
_____8. Always use multiple choice type of
questions or close-ended questions to be
able to gather data easily.
•
_____9. A questionnaire can be compared to
a newly sewn dress that needs to be fitted
before finally giving to a customer.
_____10. Testing and revising a questionnaire
can be ignored as long as the design of the
questionnaire hits the targeted research
problem and the required data.