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Title Experiments for evaluating survey questions
Year 2011
Access date 29.04.2013
Abstract

Keywords:

  • response 1 to Krosnick's chapter on experiments for evaluating survey questions - experimental design, not explicitly addressed in texts on survey design;
  • research findings, and strongly controlled conditions - verbal protocol analysis (VPA), use of cognitive interviews in experimental designs for pretesting;
  • cognitive interviews, seldom relying on think-aloud verbal reports - supplemented with item-specific probes

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Introduction
  • Experiments for Pretesting
  • Using VPA in a Cognitive Interview Pretest Experimental Design
  • An Overview of VPA
  • The Structure of a Cognitive Interview Pretest Experiment
  • Survey Question Task Analysis
  • Example Application: Public Housing Rent Systems Survey
  • Discussion
  • Notes
  • References
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