Questionnaire

Examples of Questionnaire in the following topics:

• Solicit Information

  • The basic questionnaire is a survey consisting of a series of questions and other prompts for the purpose of gathering information from respondents.
  • Questionnaires have advantages over other types of surveys in that they are cheap, do not require as much effort from the questioner as verbal or telephone surveys, and often have standardized answers that make it simple to compile data.
  • When using a questionnaire or using rating scales it is wise to try them out on a small sample of your audience before you administer them to a large group.
  • You can collect the data directly or you can use computer-assisted web based surveys or interviewing questionnaires.
  • Visitors to the youth fair "YOU" filling out a questionnaire on Wikipedia. "© Raimond Spekking / CC-BY-SA-3.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)"

• What to Look For

  • However, the speaker is addressing a larger audience or speaking via teleconferencing or webcasting tools, it may be useful to collect data via surveys or questionnaires.

• Interview Preparation

  • They tend to be far more personal than questionnaires and surveys, as the interviewer works directly with the interviewee.

• Knowledge of the Audience About Your Topic

  • Again you may ask the audience to complete a short questionnaire at the end or use an Audience Response System with automatic result tabulation to see how the audience has changed.

• The Benefits of Understanding Your Audience

  • You might also use a questionnaire or rating scale to collect data about basic demographic information and opinions of your target audience.