The Centre for Census and Survey Research (www.ccsr.ac.uk) at the University of Manchester will be running three one-day training course in September 2009 in survey and questionnaire design.
1. Questionnaire Design - 22nd September 2009
Course Summary: Rubbish in, rubbish out - have you ever discovered too late that your survey questions did not deliver useful or useable data? Through looking at a wide range of pitfalls, this course explores ways to assess the effectiveness of existing questionnaires as well as how to write successful new ones. It combines suggestions from the research literature on questionnaire design with a very practical approach. Common errors in the wording of individual questions are examined as well as how to combine individual questions into a meaningful questionnaire.
2. Cognitive Interviewing for Testing Survey Questions - 23rd September 2009
Course Summary: This one day course is designed to familiarise participants with this powerful and efficient method of piloting survey questions called Cognitive Interviewing. Cognitive Interviewing is a type of in-depth interviewing which focuses on respondents' thought processing in answering survey questions and uses specialised techniques such as thinking aloud, probing, observation and paraphrasing. The course is about what cognitive interviewing is as well as how to do it. There are practical exercises as well as lecture time.
3. Standardised Multi-Item Scale Development for Surveys - 24th September 2009
Course Summary: Standardised multi-item scales are very common in psychology, education, and health, but much less so in sociology, political science, and survey research. This one day course is designed to inspire participants from all disciplines that it is possible to develop your own high quality multi-item scales. This course offers an introduction on how to do this: looking at psychometric principles, exploring the special questionnaire design concerns, introducing some basic statistical tools for assessing the reliability and dimensionality of multi-item scales, and practice evaluating some existing scales in a lab session at the end of the day.
Places are likely to be limited. For more information and to book please go to CCSR home page www.ccsr.ac.uk or to www.ccsr.ac.uk/courses/list
Dr. Kingsley Purdam
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CCSR
University of Manchester
M13 9PL
UK
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