Web Survey Bibliography
Survey respondents sometimes interpret the words in survey questions differently than intended by question authors and this can lead to inaccurate answers. One way to clarify the intended meaning is to make definitions available. In Web surveys, it is possible to link words and their definitions so that respondents can click for clarification if they realize they might benefit from doing so and are willing to perform the necessary steps. In this paper we report an experiment in which we varied the familiarity of question terms (e.g. antioxidant vs. beer), the informativeness of the definitions (e.g. vegetables includes French fries vs. beef includes meat from cows) and the number of clicks required to obtain definitions (one, two or more). The experiment was embedded in a survey administered to a sample obtained from Survey Sampling Inc., yielding over 2,500 respondents, randomly assigned to the different conditions. Respondents were asked four questions about their consumption of food and nutrition. Overall, respondents were unlikely to obtain definitions (only about one sixth of respondents obtained one or more definitions) suggesting that many misconceptions go uncorrected. When respondents obtained at least one definition, they did so far more often for unfamiliar than familiar terms, indicating that they rarely recognize mismatched interpretations of words that they believe they know. On those occasions when definitions were obtained for familiar terms, they were more often informative than uninformative suggesting that respondents recognized the mismatch; the pattern was reversed for unfamiliar terms. Finally definitions were more likely to be obtained the fewer the number of required clicks reflecting respondents? willingness to expend truly minimum effort to clarify meaning. We discuss the results in terms of designing interactive Web survey features that are likely to be used, thus reducing measurement error.
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Web survey bibliography - 2003 (90)
- Express: A Web-based technology to support human and computational experimentation; 2003; Yule, P., Couper, M. P.
- An Evaluation of the Semiautomatic Login Procedure to Control Web Survey Access; 2003; Heerwegh, D., Loosveldt, G.
- Web site design benchmarking within industry groups; 2003; Kim, S.-E., Shaw, T., Schneider, H.
- Identifying key factors affecting consumer purchase behavior in an online shopping context; 2003; Park, C.-H., Kim, Y.-G.
- Using Web Surveys To Reach Community College Students: An Analysis of Response Rates and Response Bias...; 2003; Sax, L. J., Gilmartin, S. K., Hagedorn, L. S., Lee, J. J.
- Internet Recruiting: The Effects of Web Page Design Features; 2003; Braddy, P. W., Foster Thompson, L., Wuensch, K. L., Grossnickle, W. F.
- An Experimental Comparison of Computer-Mediated and Face-to-Face Focus Groups; 2003; Underhill, C., Olmsted, M. G.
- Exploiting Hyperlinks to Study Academic Web Use; 2003; Wilkinson, D., Thelwall, M., Li, X.
- Who Participates and Why?; 2003; Weber, L. M., Loumakis, A., Bergman, J.
- Utility of Web-based assessment of patient satisfaction with endoscopy; 2003; Harewood, G. C., Wiersema, M. J., de Groen, P. C.
- We seek them here, we seek them there. How technical innovation in mixed mode survey software is responding...; 2003; Macer, T.
- Costs and benefits of improving response rates for a hard-to-reach population; 2003; Teitler, J. O., Reichman, N. E.,
- Humanizing self-administered surveys: experiments on social presence in web and IVR surveys; 2003; Tourangeau, R., Couper, M. P., Steiger, D. M., de Rouvray, C.
- Web Surveys as Part of a Mixed-Mode Strategy for Populations That Cannot Be Contacted by E-Mail; 2003; Schonlau, M., Asch, B. J., Du, C.
- Web Survey's Hidden Hazards; 2003; Morrel Samuels, P.
- Using pencil and paper, Internet and touch-tone phones for self-administered surveys: does methodology...; 2003; Knapp, H., Kirk, S. A.
- IMRO Online Survey Satisfaction Research: A Pilot Study of Salience-based Respondent Experience Modeling...; 2003; MacElroy, B., Gray, Mi.
- Validations in Web-based Surveys; 2003; Crawford, S. D., Peytchev, A.
- Use and non-use of clarification features in web surveys; 2003; Tourangeau, R., P., Couper, M. P., Conrad, F. G., Baker, R. P.
- Online versus postal data collection methods: an examination of issues and a comparison of results; 2003; Adam, S., McDonald, H.
- Assessing Response Rates And Nonresponse Bias In Web And Paper Surveys; 2003; Sax, L. J., Gilmartin, S. K., Bryant, A. N.
- Asking Comparative Questions: A Comparison Of Three Wording Strategies; 2003; Liu, K.
- It's Only Incidental: Effects of Response Format in Determining Behavioral or Event Occurrence; 2003; Lafond, C. R., Smith, M. R., Behnke, C. S., Thomas, R. K.
- Design implementation of a Multimode Web Survey; 2003; Wine, S. J., Cominole, M. B., Carwile, D. S., Perry, K.
- Partnering with a Newspaper to Assess Community Opinion Online; 2003; Downs, E. P., Lindley, A. M.
- Implementing a Web Survey Administration System at the GAO; 2003; Feldesman, A. G.
- Using Internet-Based Surveys With Physicians, What Works and What Doesn't Work; 2003; Schneiderman, M., Thran, S., Adams, C., Lerner, B.
- Exploring Online Survey Metodologies: Who are the Respondents and How to Get them to respond; 2003; Wolter-Warmerdam, K., Gardinali, A. P., Wong, R.
- Using RGI (Respondent Generated Interval) to gather factual information in a web survey; 2003; Lusinchi, D.
- Can What We Don’t Know (about “Don’t Know”) Hurt Us?: Effects of Item Non-response...; 2003; Krosnick, J. A., Behnke, C. S., Lafond, C. R., Thomas, R. K.
- Survey Administration Effects? A Comparison of Web-Based and Traditional Written Self-Administered Surveys...; 2003; Bandilla, W., Bosnjak, M., Altdorfer, P.
- What They See Is What We Get: Response Options for Web Surveys; 2003; Couper, M. P., Tourangeau, R., Conrad, F. G., Crawford, S. D.
- Web Survey Design: Comparing Static and Interactive Survey Instruments; 2003; Nyiri, Z., Clark, L. R.
- Comparing Web-Based Survey Methods with other Approaches: An examination of health knowledge, opinion...; 2003; Greiling, K. A., McCarrier, P. K., Stringer, M. C.
- The role of issue involvement in UK public attitudes to the single European currency; 2003; Roberts, E. C.
- The role of issue involvement in UK public attitudes to the single European currency; 2003; Roberts, E. C.
- Partipation in Online Surveys: Results from a Series of Experiments; 2003; Kiniorski, A. K., R.Smith, M. R.
- Does Order Really Make a Difference? The Impact of Respondent and Question Characteristics on Response...; 2003; O'Neill, G.
- Does Order Really Make a Difference? The Impact of Respondent and Question Characteristics on Response...; 2003; O'Neill, G.
- The Advent of internet surveys for political research: a comparison of telephone and internet surveys...; 2003; Berrens, R. P., Bohara, A. K., Jenkins-Smith, H. C., Silva, C. L., Weimer, D. L.
- The Global Digital Divide: A Sociological Assessment of Trends and Causes; 2003; Drori, G. S., Jang, Y. S.
- Cognitive processes in Web Surveys; 2002; Fuchs, M.