The best practices for survey research is utilizing a questionnaire that has the appropriate
question forms. These can be in the form of questions and statements. These can be open-ended and close-ended questions. The survey should include items that are clear. In addition, the survey should avoid double-barreled questions. This means the question should not have two responses and/or ask two different questions. The questionnaire should be relevant and should avoid negative items. Furthermore, the survey research should avoid biased items and terms and should be short. The participants must be competent and willing to answer the survey. My general research question will explore, “Does family fun time activities affect family involvement?” Specifically, I want to examine whether race affects family involvement? I will use the survey question, “How involved was the family in this activity?” to operationalize the dependent variable of family involvement. Additionally, I will use two survey questions to operationalize the independent variable, race, which are (1) What is your child’s ethnic background? and (2) What is your ethnic background? These are well-written survey questions because (a) they are not leading questions; (b) they avoid negative items; and (c) they are not double-barreled questions. The dependent variable survey question is an open-ended question which is qualitative and will provide a more detailed response. The independent variable questions are close-ended questions that will provide quantitative data.