Measuring the Problem: Questionnaire

Now that you have identified a problem you must state it in a way that will allow you to measure it. You may want to wait until after you have conducted the research before creating your thesis statement.

Maybe you have decided, for example, that there appears to be a problem regarding student services at the Rajabhat. Now you must decide how to measure the problem.

I believe the easiest way for you to do this will be with a questionnaire. It is very important to consider various things before preparing the questionnaire. These include:

1. Establish the goals of the project – What you want to learn
2. Determine your sample – Whom you will interview
3. Choose interviewing methodology – How you will interview
4. Create your questionnaire – What you will ask
5. Pre-test the questionnaire, if practical – Test the questions.
6. Conduct interviews and enter data - Ask the questions.
7. Analyze the data - Produce the reports.

This list was taken from this website: http://www.chartwellsystems.com/sdesign.htm

The website is mainly about business surveys but it might give you some initial help.

Here is another site related to academic research questionnaires: http://web.utk.edu/~wrobinso/540_lec_qaire.html

For next week I hope that you can have a list of questions that you will ask on your survey. Together we can go over them and decide how appropriate they are.