Contents | 1.
Introduction | 2.
Steps | 3.
Practicalities | 4.
Examples |
5.
Client questionnaires
6. Standardized
tools |
7.
On-line surveys | 8.
Checklists | 9.
Resources
9.
Resources
Web resources
If you want more detailed tips on designing questionnaires, how to word questions, analysing data some useful links are:
- "Collecting evaluation data: Surveys"
(175k) by
Talyor-Powell and Hermann which describes planning and implementing
surveys. - "Questionnaire
Design: Asking questions with a purpose"
(185k) by Taylor-Powell
- Smart
Survey Design,
(565k)
Survey Monkey
- Tutorial in questionnaire design This tutorial is about how to design a questionnaire and conduct a survey.
- Using
Excel for Analysing Survey Questionnaires, (3
Meg) Jennifer Leahy
Useful practical references - books
De Vaus, D. A. Surveys in social Research, Fifth Edition, Allen and Unwin, 2002. this is a text that covers how to plan, conduct and analyse social curveys.
Pamela L Alreck and Robert B. Settle The Survey Research Handbook by Irwin McGraw Hill, 1995. This is a very useful handbook.
Wadsworth, Yoland. Everyday Evaluation on the Run, 2nd Edition , Allen & Unwin 1997. (115pp) This introduction to program evaluation is written for people working in the human services field. It describes a range of strategies that can be used by non-specialist evaluators and shows how evaluation can be built into busy everyday practice. It provides a framework for the more specific tools in the companion volume Do It Yourself Social Research.
Wadsworth, Yoland. Do It Yourself Social Research, 2nd Edition, Allen & Unwin, 1997 (114pp) This book is a useful companion to Everyday Evaluation on the Run. Chapter 5 Designs, Methods and Techniques includes sections on questionnaires and sampling is especially relevant here. This chapter is useful for people wanting to know the basics.
Australian Bureau of Statistics, An Introduction to Sample Surveys, A Users Guide, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1999 . This provides an overview of the process of questionnaire design through to analysis of results. It is a guide to the basics.
J.H. Abramson & Z.H. Abramson. Survey Methods in Community Medicine, Churchill Livingstone, Sydney 1999. Although this book is written for community medicine it includes detailed and technical analysis of all the issues related with questionnaire design and use including sampling, reliability, validity, scales, control groups, reporting, etc. It is a technical work.