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Documenting questions and answers

Documenting questions and answers

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Documenting questions and answers

- [Instructor] Okay, now that we designed and mocked up our survey, we need to document our survey questions and answers. Just to remind you, we started with a list of domains. That guided us as to what topics on which to base our questions. Then, we made a survey mock-up in Word. We made a section for each domain, then decided on questions. I won't go into detail about how to wordsmith questions, but let me point out that you do have to do a good job designing the question, or ultimately the survey is no good. If you want, you can mix up questions from different domains, but we don't normally do that because we don't want to confuse the respondent. If you are asking about food, and then you are asking about drinks, you'll confuse the respondent if you put food and drink questions together. Also in the mock-up, we put some programming specifications for SurveyMonkey, and we typed out all the text that was needed to be…

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