Survey research and design in psychology/Lectures/Survey design

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Lecture 02: Survey design

Resource type: this resource contains a lecture or lecture notes.

This is the second lecture for the Survey research and design in psychology unit of study.

Completion status: this resource is ~75% complete.

Outline

This lecture discusses the nuts and bolts of good survey design for research in the social sciences, including

1. Research process
2. Types of surveys
   1. Strengths and weaknesses of survey administration methods
3. Survey design
4. Levels of measurement
5. Sampling
6. Threats to internal validity e.g., Demand characteristics

The lecture resources include presentation slides, audio and video recordings, and additional notes.

Slides

• Lecture slides (Slideshare)
• 2013 handouts:
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Recordings

These are the 2013 lecture recordings:

• echo360 (rich media)
• mpv (video)
• mp3 (audio)

See also

• Survey research (Previous lecture)
• Descriptives & graphing (Next lecture)
• Level of measurement
• Survey design
• Sampling (statistics) - Example: Shere Hite - ‘American Sexology’

External links

• Slides (Slideshare)