Week 3-4: Descriptive Methods: Survey Research
USES OF SURVEYS
CHARACTERISTICS OF SURVEYS
SAMPLING IN SURVEY RESEARCH
Basic Terms of Sampling Approaches to Sampling SURVEY METHODS Mail Surveys |
Personal Interviews
Telephone Interviews
Internet Surveys
SURVEY-RESEARCH DESIGNS
Cross-Sectional Design
Successive Independent Samples Design
Longitudinal Design
QUESTIONNAIRES
Questionnaires as Instruments
Reliability and Validity of Self-Report Measures
Constructing a Questionnaire
THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT SURVEY RESEARCH
Correspondence Between Reported and Actual Behavior
Correlation and Causality