STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS TO DESIGN AND DEVELOP A QUESTIONNAIRE FOR A FINAL YEAR PROJECT
INTRODUCTION:
A questionnaire is a strategy for gathering information whereby a respondent gives answers to a progression of questions given to him or her by a researcher or a research student. And as straightforward or simple as it might appear or sound, most students still think that it's very hard to frame or design a decent research questionnaire for their research project works. There are various methods of developing a decent questionnaire for research purposes; this relies upon the sort or type of final year project topic or project topics the student is working on. Although, each educational field of study has its own format for the design of its research questionnaires, at times this might not be an order from the school but the choice of the supervisor. Before a research student will be able to develop a decent questionnaire properly he or she must first of all be able to understand his or her final year project topic or project topics properly, before deciding on the kind of questions he or she will like to ask his or her respondents. A questionnaire is a strategy for gathering information whereby a respondent gives answers to a progression of questions and to build up a decent questionnaire that will gather the information you need takes effort and time. However, by adopting a step by step strategy to questionnaire development, you can think of a successful way to gather the information that will address your remarkable research question. Questionnaire design is a multistage process that requires attention to many details at once. Designing the questionnaire is a bit complicated because the studies can ask about topics in varying degrees of detail, questions can be asked in different ways, and questions asked earlier in research may influence how people respond to later questions. Researchers also are often interested in measuring change over time and therefore must be attentive to how opinions or behaviors have been measured in prior studies. Maybe the most important part of the research process is the development or creation of questions that accurately measure the opinions, experiences, and behaviors of the public. Accurate random sampling and high response rates will be wasted if the information gathered is built on a shaky foundation of ambiguous or biased questions. Creating good measures involves both writing good questions and organizing them to form the questionnaire.