Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL)

RLO: Designing a Questionnaire

Introduction
Design
Pilot Study
Maximising Response
Activity
Assessment
Feedback
Resources

Maximising Response

The aim of any questionnaire to get information from a targeted group. This group may reflect a larger population of people. If only a few people respond to the questionnaire, results may be biased towards those people motivated to respond.

Things that influence response include:

Quality of questionnaire presentation
Length of questionnaire - long questionnaires tend to take longer to return.
Reminders to participants can increase response.

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