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Questionnaire

Meaning in academic english & research, with examples

/ˌkwestʃəˈneə(r)/nounCore term

In academic english & research, questionnaire means: A set of written questions given to many people to collect information about their opinions, experiences or behavior.

In Turkish: anket, soru formu, ölçek formu

How it is used

Researchers design, pilot, distribute and administer questionnaires, and respondents complete or fill them in. Questionnaires may use Likert-scale items (from strongly agree to strongly disagree) and open-ended questions. Survey is a broader word for the whole data collection.

Example sentences

  1. The questionnaire was piloted with 20 students before the main study.

  2. Of the 400 questionnaires distributed, 286 were returned complete.

Common collocations

  • design a questionnaire
  • administer a questionnaire
  • complete a questionnaire
  • online questionnaire
  • questionnaire items
  • sampleThe smaller group of people, items or texts selected from a larger population for a study, so that conclusions can be drawn about that population.
  • participantA person who takes part in a study, for example by answering a questionnaire, being interviewed or completing an experiment.
  • quantitativeDescribing research that collects numerical data and uses statistics to measure, compare or test relationships, often with larger samples.
  • reliabilityThe extent to which a measurement or method gives consistent results when it is repeated or used by different researchers.
  • validityThe extent to which a study or instrument really measures what it claims to measure and supports the conclusions drawn from it.

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