1.) What’s the difference between a closed-ended question and an open-ended question? What are the various strengths and weaknesses associated with both types? Which type will be most appropriate for your research? Why? Provide some specific questions that you will use.
2.) What do you think about compensating survey respondents to complete a questionnaire? Describe both the positive and negative aspects associated with this approach. Are some forms of compensation better than others? Why or why not? Will you implement some form of compensation to elicit higher response rates in your study? Why or why not?
3.) What is a double-barreled question? Provide an example. Why are double-barreled questions inappropriate for survey research? How does the introduction of contingency questions solve the double-barreled question problem? Take your previously constructed double-barreled question and design one or more contingency questions.
4.) Given your reading of Smith (2013), what does the future hold for survey research? Does the use of new technologies such as social media promise to improve survey research? Is there any potential for harm? Discuss.
