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Title Experiments for evaluating survey questions
Author Krosnick, J. A.
Source Question evaluation methods. Contributing to the science of data quality, pp. 267-295
Year 2011
Database Willey InterScience
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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Year of publication2011
Bibliographic typeBook section