Survey Design

Will family fun activities promote more parent involvement?

IV What is your highest education obtained?

Non, GED, bachelors, masters, doctorate.

DV Did the Astronaut pudding promote parental involvement?

0-not at all, 10-a great amount

These are good/well written questions because:

  1. They are not double-barreled questions
  2. They are relevant
  3. There are no negative items
  4. Not biased

They also will give the researcher necessary information to find a cause-affect relationship.

Best practices for survey research should have generalizability. A large and random sample. To successfully represent a population. Making sure the survey is not in a randomized order. Start with open ended questions so the respondent will not be fatigued. Demographic questions should go to the end as well. Lastly, no sensitive topics in the beginning, you want to warm them up.