Specific Aim 3 : Distribute And Collect The Questionnaire

Over the upcoming few weeks, I will be conducting research on the effectiveness of the PBIS program within our school. The following paragraphs will describe how I envision the study will take place, who will participate and where, as well as how data will be collected and analyzed. My chosen research method, as well as the appropriateness of the chosen method will also be discussed.

Questionnaires are “a series of questions asked to individuals to obtain statistically useful information about a given topic” (Bryant, L, 2014). There are different types of questionnaires that include face to face, phone, post and online.

4. What are the limitations of the survey method, and how would you overcome the limitations of this research method, or any research approach?

A questionnaire is a list of a research or survey questions asked to respondents, and designed to extract quantitative date. Questionnaires are easily distributed to the community and can be completed and collected on the spot or be emailed or posted back to the researcher. Self completed questionnaires are the most common survey as they are cheap and can be passed to a lot of people. Some sociologists tend not to use questionnaires because of their low response rate and lack of validity. Also, some people may give false information so some researchers like to stick to interviews and experiments for increased accuracy. I will explore why sociologists shy away from using questionnaires.

The population is undergraduate students of UM and we eliminated the unsuitable sample based on the information of questionnaires (exclude the outliers, blank questionnaire, context is contradictory and so on). Then we selected 30 questionnaires per college year which year 1 to year 4 (30*4=120) from all the completed questionnaires. We used convenience sampling method to distribute the online questionnaires openly. And we received the completed questionnaires online which are from google form.

A questionnaire is research which involves a number of different questions to gather information from the people who are filling it in. Questionnaires are designed as a way to find out what people are thinking. An advantage of questionnaires is that it is very practical because it is quick to collect information from the people filling out the questionnaire. Another advantage of questionnaires is that the same questions is asked to everyone filling the questionnaire out so easy to sum up. The final advantage to questionnaires is that large information can be collected. There are also some disadvantages to questionnaires which is that there is no way of telling how much though someone who is filling the questionnaire out has put it. Another disadvantage is that the person filling it out may forget what has happened to fill it out so it won’t be reliable. The final disadvantage to questionnaires is that there is no way to tell how truthful a respondent is being.

Similarly, there exist several sources for measurement of error: the questionnaire, the data collection method, the interviewer, and the respondent. The questionnaire utilized was not provided in the report. Therefore, evaluation of the question wording effects and the response categories for questions cannot be made. However, according to the Pew Research, translation was carefully cared out in a multi-step process and data collection was meticulously recorded.

This included at least one teacher for each foreign language class offered as well. The survey provided no additional information about the research and required each student to select their grade level. Responses remained completely anonymous; however, it was required that each student be logged into their school gmail account to take the survey. This allowed Google to collect each email address before each attempt and verify that each student was a part of the district as well as confirmed that the student had not already taken the survey previously. This ensured each response was unique and that no one student was able to submit multiple responses. With over 250 submissions, I made sure that there were at least fifty respondents per each grade level and that the proportion of responders and their grade levels were proportional. There was a slight unbalance between junior and sophomore responses (sophomores representing about 30% of respondents and juniors 22%), but senior and freshman responses balanced near 25% of the sample population. This created an equal ground for collecting data, which ensured the data be statistically significant. Since quantitative results cannot directly respond to the research question, the method was additionally supplemented with

Two experimental procedure hinged on questioning residents or university students to answer a face-to-face survey (Abdullah et al. 2014; Yang and Wyckoff 2010).

Also cost effective, the mail surveys specifically targeted the members and their spouses. Postal surveys can target specific people (necessary for the member and spouse data collection), and allow respondents the ability to answer the survey at their leisure. On the other hand, mail questionnaires are a slower data gathering method as compared to internet surveys (Hoonakker & Carayon, 2009, p. 359). Similarly, the possibility of response-based error may occur if respondents do not correctly

At the same , I found a lot of advantages of doing a questionnaire survey.For example, practical and large amounts of information can be collected from a large number of people in a short period of time and in a relatively cost effective way, ant it can be carried out by the researcher or by any number of people with limited effect to its validity and reliability.

According to www.uc.ie/resources (025/02/08) ‘‘argued that questionnaires give the researcher feedback from the point of view of the user’’.

Multiple-choice questionnaires were used for Experiment 1 to identify false answers. Experiment 2 was partially done online, which allowed the stu8dents to make choices without direct contact with the authors of the study.

The strength of questionnaires is it can give an insight into respondent’s thoughts and opinions and also cost efficient as it is inexpensive.

In survey method research, participants answer questions administered through interviews or questionnaires. After participants answer the questions, researchers describe the responses given. In order for the survey to be both reliable and valid it is important that the questions are constructed properly. Questions should be written so they are clear and easy to comprehend.