Now that you have planned your APA research project, it’s time to develop your survey! Yay. This week you will be creating survey items related to your variables of interest. Once constructed, you will administer your pilot (draft) survey to your classmates and 20 friends and family. As mentioned in the under the Writing Survey Items heading, survey items are either open-ended or closed-ended. Open-ended items simply ask a question and allow respondents to answer in whatever way they want. These questions are usually more in nature and are useful when researchers are beginning a new area of research or when they want to broaden possible answers from respondents. These questions are easier to write, but harder to analyze. Closed-ended items ask a question and provide several response options that respondents must choose from. They are often more in nature and are often used when researchers are investigating a well-defined variable or construct (for example, level of agreement or perceptions of risk). Closed-ended items are more difficult to write, but are easy for respondents to complete. They are also easier to analyze beca
use responses can be quickly converted into numbers and analyzed using basic statistics (for example, frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations). Often, surveys will include a mix of open-ended and closed-ended items depending on the topic, the participants, and the research questions under investigation. To give you experience in creating both types of questions, your survey will include both open and closed ended items. Before you begin, please watch this 5-minute video from Pew Research on writing survey questions – . Please construct your surveys using . _______________. _____________________. You will create and administer your survey using . Before you start working, please review the lesson later in this module on When complete, your survey should have four pages/sections, organized in the following order: Note: Please do not mark any of your questions as “required” as this prevents your instructor from reviewing your questions without participating. Once you have constructed your survey using Google Forms, share the link with your classmates by posting it in this discussion, by Tuesday at 11:59pm.