Research
QDDS-II
- a
questionnaire development documentation system
Background
Due to pretest results, a questionnaire is usually revised
several
times during construction. For several purposes such as data analysis
and data storage, as well as further questionnaire development in
future studies, it is necessary to document those revisions in detail.
This extensive documentation is also indispensable for teaching in
survey research.
Nonetheless, this documentation is usually done only partially or not
at all, due to a lack of useful documentation tools.
Project description
Goal of this project is the development of a program system
that
allows permanent electronic documentation of questionnaire development
and the final state of the instrument. The program should be suitable
for paper&pencil, face-to-face and CATI instruments. A database
for
each questionnaire will contain information on formal aspects of each
question, such as response categories and mode of answering (pick any
that apply, ranking, magnitude estimation etc.). Furthermore formal
criteria such as type of question, character of replies, context and
subject of the question can be saved.
The questionnaire of the Defect
Project (documented with QDDS) will be used for a prototype
implemented.
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German project description [.pdf] |
Screenshots
Download
| Small documentation for complex questionnairs (german) [pdf] |
Project staff
Rainer Schnell (project head)
Anja Zwingenberger (survey methodology)
Oliver Hopt (programming)
Natascha Gormanns (testing)
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Funding
German Research Foundation (DFG)