Survey Design

Some of the best practices for survey research are quite simple. For starters, surveys help learn more about feelings and behaviors. When conducting our survey research, double-barreled questions should be avoided, instead being specific and only asking about one idea at a time. General question format should also avoid negative words and biased items. When it comes to this specific research assignment, I came up with the question, “How does the implementation of family fun time activities impact family involvement?” as my main problem that needs to be answered. The survey question that I will be using to operationalize my dependent variable follows below and will include a scale, “On a scale from 0-10, how involved did you feel during the completion of the family fun activity?”. Following my survey question for my dependent variable, I have also listed a different survey question that involves a scale to help operationalize my independent variable, “On a scale from 0-10, how involved did you feel during the completion of the family fun activity?” When looking at my survey question for the dependent variable, it can be seen as strong and understanding because this is our variable of interest that is assumed to depend on the independent variable. Following the dependent variable, the survey question for the independent variable is operational because these are normally our demographic variables with values that are not problematic because we are simply encouraging the activities.