Build question catalog
"False information is much worse than not knowing anything." — Marcus Munafo
Once the preparatory work is completed, we see the information needs of our research precisely defined. The next step is to find the best possible questions to gather this information.
It is not worth doing several steps at once. First, let's just create a question catalog. This list containing our basic questions can later be expanded with, for example, introductory or lead-in questions. This catalog of questions will not yet be the same as the final form of the survey.
In this phase, let's focus on what questions we can use to find out the information we are looking for https://survinator.com. The questioning tactics will only be decided after that.
Let's write down what we are asking and how.
Where closed questions are needed, where we provide the answer options in advance and the person filling in selects one or more of them - based on our instructions - . It is worth choosing this if the answer options can be limited with great precision.
Processing closed questions is simpler in every respect. The system does this completely automatically for us. Interpreting the answers received here and including them in statistics is also a simple process. More about its limitations in the article dealing with the types of questions
Although the open-ended questions are more difficult to process, they allow us to get answers that we did not even think of during the preparation of the survey. Here we can find out what comes to mind of the person completing the question based on the given question, without limiting their thinking with pre-defined answer options.
The two question types can also be combined:
Since the number of questions will probably only increase during the editing of the survey, it is worth taking precautions at this point. Let our question catalog be as short as possible, so that it collects the desired information in the most efficient and simple way possible.