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Exercise 7: Check Your Questionnaire

This self-check exercise is adapted from Activity 47 Designing Questionnaires by
Catherine Dawson (2016).

Check Your Questionnaire

1. Are questions organized in logical order in your questionnaire? 

2. Does your questionnaire have an introduction? Does the introduction 
state the research purpose and research topic, the use of results and
the length of questionnaire?

3. Does your questionnaire have a conclusion? 

4. Do your questions help you to achieve aims and objectives? 

5. Are your questions clear? 

6. Did you avoid unnecessary long questions? 

7. Did you start from easy questions and proceed with more difficult? 

8. Did you avoid embarrassing questions that could make people give 
false answers?

9. Did you explain all the unknown scientific terms in your 
questionnaire?

10. Did you avoid technical words or words that can have many 
meanings?

11. Did you avoid two questions in one? 

12. Did you avoid questions that could make your participants feel bad 
(angry, offended or ashamed)?

13. Did you present sensitive questions in an indirect form? 

14. Did you avoid vague time words such as “often” or “rarely”? 

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