Friday, November 6, 2009

Questionaire development

Today's assignment is related to the questionnaire development. As I sit right now, it seemed really easy to develop my questionnaire. I made two attempts to design it and the first didn't go very well. I had thoughts running through my mind about the focus group info that I had collected, all of the guidelines listed out in the text, describing what to write and how to write it, not to mention the fact that I'm actually going to have to pull data out of this thing to use at a later date. So I crumpled up the first attempt and tossed it in the trash and I sat down with a blank sheet of paper and I thought "What do I want to get out of this questionnaire?" Taking a step back and looking at the big picture helped me to stay focused on my objective with the questionnaire. Once I got my main points down on paper, I could fill in the support questions that helped funnel the information down to usable topics. After that, it was just making it pretty, making sure I didn't have any goofy questions. Pretty good assignment that will be pretty effective to capture the needed data for my research.