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Author Willis, Gordon B. (Gordon Bruce)

Title Cognitive interviewing : a tool for improving questionnaire design / Gordon B. Willis
Published Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2005]
©2005

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Description xii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction to cognitive interviewing -- 2. Setting the stage for cognitive interviewing : first principles of questionnaire design -- 3. Background and theoretical origins : the CASM approach -- 4. Cognitive interviewing in practice : think-aloud, verbal probing, and other techniques -- 5. Developing standard cognitive probes -- 6. Beyond the standard model of verbal probing -- 7. A further perspective : cognitive testing as expansive interviewing -- 8. Avoiding probing pitfalls -- 9. Selection and training of cognitive interviewers -- 10. Planning and conducting cognitive interviews -- 11. Analyzing and documenting cognitive interview results -- 12. Special applications of cognitive interviewing -- 13. Evaluation of cognitive interviewing techniques -- 14. Beyond cognitive testing : affiliated pretesting methods -- 15. Recommendations and future directions -- App. 1. Example of cognitive testing protocol -- App. 2. Examples of findings from cognitive testing reports
Summary "Cognitive Interviewing is ideally suited as a course text for advanced undergraduate and graduate research courses across the social sciences. Professional researchers and faculty in the social sciences as well as practice fields such as medicine, business and education, will also find this an invaluable reference for survey research. There is no other book on the market that covers cognitive interviewing as applied to questionnaire design."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Sociology
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-319) and index
Notes Also available online
Subject Cognition.
Interviewing.
Psychology -- Research -- Methodology.
Questionnaires -- Design.
Questionnaires -- Methodology.
Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.
Social surveys -- Methodology.
Psychology.
Data Collection.
Surveys and Questionnaires.
Genre/Form methods
LC no. 2004013649
ISBN 0761928030 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0761928049 (paperback)
Other Titles Improving questionnaire design