How to Write a Good Questionnaire?

 How do I create a questionnaire in Word? 

The specialists have developed the basic rules for writing the questionnaire to help individuals prepare for it and achieve the desired results. The steps of the questionnaire are as follows:

• Define the objectives of the questionnaire and the points addressed: There is no doubt that in order to get a good questionnaire must be clearly defined.
• Write the questionnaire: After the questionnaire designer has clearly defined the purpose of the questionnaire comes the role of writing the questionnaire. The second type is a restricted or closed-format questionnaire based on asking many questions that have many answers and one or several options are selected. 

The questionnaire is written through the following steps:

• Identify the areas to be addressed by the questionnaire.
• Formulate questions that meet the purpose of the questionnaire.
• Conduct a preliminary study of the questionnaire.
• Determine the validity and consistency of the questionnaire through statistics.
• It is best to limit the survey questionnaire to no more than a quarter of an hour for the type to be filled out individually and half an hour for the group questionnaire.

 What are the advantages of the questionnaire? 

Advantages of the questionnaire:

• The questionnaire can from all the many information of scattered individuals with minimal effort.
• The questionnaire is relatively low costs.
• The person has more time to answer.
• The questionnaire has more standardization conditions (honesty and reliability measurement).
• The questionnaire helps to obtain information that is difficult to obtain using other means.
• The questionnaire gives sufficient opportunity to answer questions more accurately and explicitly (objectively) due to the lack of knowledge of the respondent.
• The questionnaire does not require a large number of individuals for the purpose of follow-up questionnaires.
• The questionnaire allows quantitative data collection and analysis easily.
• The questionnaire collects basic information about respondents.
• The researcher loses his personal contact with the study members (mail questionnaire).
• The questionnaire does not allow participants to clarify ambiguous questions.
• The questionnaire may be a difficult way for uneducated participants.
• The questionnaire is difficult to verify the accuracy of the answers.

 How do you validate a questionnaire? 

In order to validate the questionnaire, the questionnaire must be tested before the actual application:

The validation of the questionnaire is the process of judging the questionnaire. The researcher selects a group of experts and distributed copies of the questionnaire to view it, record their observations and express their opinions in the content of the questionnaire. Arbitrators are often of two categories:

• First: Arbitrators experienced in research methods and preparation of questionnaires.
• Second: Arbitrators test the questionnaire on a simple sample of individuals so that this questionnaire the sample is consistent with its characteristics with the research personnel.

This experience is useful for the researcher in several respects:

• Determine the degree of respondents' responses to the questionnaire.
• Help identify mysterious questions.
• Assists in providing pre-test of the imposition.
• Clarifies some design and methodological problems

 How do you start a questionnaire? 

You must specify the type of information required: The questionnaire is designed in the light of the general framework of the study subject to include the main and sub-points of the research. These points are arranged in a logical manner and under each point questions are placed.

Typically, the types of questions according to the information requested may include:

- Factual questions: name, age, Qualification, etc.

- Questions opinions and directions.

- Self-sense questions.

- Questions measurements or specifications verb.

- Questions that define past or present behavior.

- Projective questions: an indirect way to question.

 Can we use the questionnaire in qualitative research? 

The qualitative research is an explanatory scientific research that contains information that needs to be interpreted and analyzed. It is not used to test the hypotheses but to answer scientific research questions studied by the researcher, where qualitative research answers questions (how - why), which provides the reader and the researcher a deeper understanding of the answers to the questions asked. The questionnaire is therefore not used to collect information in qualitative research.

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With greetings: Al - Manara Consulting to help researchers and graduate students