The main goal of best practices for survey research is to formulate precise, effective, and clear questions that accurately evaluate the topic of the research. Questions should be clear, short, and relevant to avoid misinterpretation. Must choose appropriate question forms, open-ended questions and closed-ended questions, to collect qualitative and quantitative data. Avoid double barrel questions, no negative items, and no biased items or terms. Respondents must be competent and willing (Babbie, 2017).
My research question for this project is “How do single parents of three-five-year-olds parental availability affect their children’s screentime?”. My dependent variable is the affect of parental availability on children’s screentime. To measure this dependent variable, I am using the survey question “My workload (including household chores) leads to your child having more access to screentime” and this statement is asked using a scale of zero to ten, zero represents “not at all” and ten represents “a great amount”. My independent variable is single parent. To measure this independent variable, I am using the survey question “Do you consider yourself a single parent?” and the attributes to this question are “yes “,”no “,”maybe “, or “prefer not to say”.
The questions in the survey are good and well written questions because there are both close-ended and open-ended questions to provide qualitative and quantitative data. The questions are uncluttered, consistent, and one question per line (Babbie, 2017). First, the survey requires informed consent to continue the survey and questions can be left unanswered. They follow all aspects of the appropriate questionnaires formats and guidelines.
References
Babbie, E. (2017). The basics of social research (7th ed.). Cengage Learning.