Survey Development

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Sponsored White Paper: 11 Easy Ways to Improve Your Survey Response Rates: You can learn a lot from your customers and employees - if you can get them to fill out your survey. Surveys are a powerful and cost-effective way to not only gather information, but also identify and diagnose problems as well as uncover any new and emerging opportunities. However, one of the biggest challenges that many companies face in conducting surveys is getting enough people to take their survey (i.e. getting a high enough response rate) to ensure that their survey results are accurate. While there is no single, silver bullet for improving response rates, there are some easy steps that companies can take that, when combined, will help them improve their survey response rates. This white paper from Allegiance discusses what those steps are.
Sponsored White Paper: The Devil Is in the Data: This research-on-research report explains how DMS Research profiled and examined panelists and survey respondents in detail based on their survey-taking behavior to help determine how questionnaires can be designed to gather the most accurate information from different types of respondents.
A report on the 2009 Globalpark Market Research Software Survey: This time around, results show that larger research companies are leading the charge when it comes to adopting mobile research techniques and, in spite of all the industry buzz, online communities have not yet taken off.
Follow these five tips when surveying Web site visitors: The author provides five tips intended to help researchers gain more insightful information using site intercept surveying without damaging users' experience on the site.
How clear research objectives can lead a project to success: Defining research objectives at the beginning of a project can serve as a guiding light throughout the research process and help ensure that client needs are satisfied by asking the right questions to the right people the right way.

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Is computer-aided interviewing for you?: While many research companies are now using computer-aided interviewing, many buyers are not taking advantage of the service. This article explores computer-aided interviewing, including why buyers neither request nor desire to take advantage of this technology.
By The Numbers: Respondent goodwill is a cooperative activity: Researchers have many steps they can take to improve and enhance respondent cooperation, including reducing survey length, watching for respondent fatigue and offering effective incentives.
The numbers game: refining multi-point scales: A multi-point scale can be a great research tool because it is objective, quantifiable and fast. This article discusses how to make multi-point scales that are well-structured, carefully worded and streamlined - and the importance of doing so.
Watch out for dropouts: It is common knowledge in the research industry that the percentage of respondents dropping out of Web surveys will rise as questionnaires lengthen. It is less known how such mid-survey terminations affect study findings. This article discusses recent experiments conducted by Burke, Inc. and SPSS MR showing that questionnaire dropouts can indeed impact results - particularly on concept tests, the most common use of Web surveys.
Ask the right questions: Common mistakes in questionnaire design are explored, along with reasons why bad questions still find their way into expensive research projects (such as lack of preparation, big egos, ulterior motives and a lack of experience).

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Related Glossary Terms

Questionnaire: A set of questions designed to generate data necessary for accomplishing the objectives of the research project.

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Related Events

SAWTOOTH SOFTWARE CONFERENCE 2010: October 5-8, 2010; Sawtooth Software will hold its annual research conference on October 5-8 at the Newport Beach Marriott in Newport Beach, Calif.
RIVA COURSE 199: QUALITATIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND SCREENER DEVELOPMENT: December 6, 2010; RIVA Training Institute will hold a course, themed 'Qualitative Project Management and Screener Development' on December 6 in Rockville, Md.