Survey Question
Research question
How are students feeling about the rules that are in place to reduce the number of cases here at Longwood?
What survey question will you use to operationalize your dependent variable?
On a scale from 0-10, how beneficial do you think the policies Longwood enacted are at preventing the spread of COVID-19?
What survey question will you use to operationalize your independent variable?
-Longwood requires all students, faculty, and guest to wear face masks on campus with few (stated) exceptions. Do you support the face mask policy at Longwood University?
These are good written questions because the questions are relevant to my research questions. The questions were clear, and weren’t double-barreled.
For survey research, the best practice would be units of analysis.