PSY494_P15 Questionnaire Design


Block course: Monday 23/11 – Thursday 26/11, room PC26

Contact persons:

Lecturer: Dr. Anke Goerzig, London School of Economics and Political Science
Email: a.s.goerzig@lse.ac.uk

Contact Person at MU: Dr. Zuzana Scott, scott@fss.muni.cz

Course is limited to max. 19 students!

Course is offered to Master students, Bachelor students have to have lecturer’s permission to take
the course (ask for exception via IS).

Course objectives

The purpose of this workshop is to acquire some basic knowledge and practical skills in the design
of questionnaire scales assessing an underlying psychological construct (e.g., attitudes or
personality factors).

This practical workshop will cover scale construction and the evaluation of psychometric
properties, an overview of the properties of different scales, effects of questionnaire
administration, question wording and question order effects.

During the workshop students will work in small groups to construct their own questionnaire scale,
collect and enter data into SPSS, analyze and evaluate their measurement scale.

At the end of the workshop students should be able to critically evaluate questionnaire scales
reported in the literature. Students should also be able to construct their own questionnaires
adhering to common quality criteria.

Course format

The workshop will be conducted during four days. Day 1 and day 4 consist of teaching sessions
including exercises. During day 2 and day 3 students will be collecting data using their own
questionnaires and enter the data into SPSS. The lecturer will be present for consultation on data
collection and entry during those days.

Participation at lectures (day 1 and 4) is mandatory. Students can input data into SPSS at home if
they wish to do so.






Course schedule

Day 1: Introduction and questionnaire design
•       Part I:  Introduction to questionnaire design and development
•       Part II: Questionnaire development

Day 2-3: Consultation, data collection and data entry

•       Finalizing of questionnaire
•       Data collection

•       Data entry (using SPSS)

Day 4: Scale properties and evaluation
•       Part I: Quality criteria of scales
•       Part II: Evaluation of questionnaires (using SPSS)



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                                                 2

                                                 3


                                            Lunch break

                                                 4

                                                 5

                                                 6


                                            8.00 - 9.30

                                           9.45 - 11.15

                                           11.30 - 12.30

                                           13.30 - 14.30

                                           15.15 - 16.45

                                           17.00 - 18.30

Monday 23/11



Part I.


Part II



Tuesday 24/11







Data

Wednesday 25/11







Data

Thursday 26/11



Part I.



Part II.




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Dr. Anke Görzig, FHEA
Lecturer in Psychology
Erasmus+ Coordinator, Psychology, Social Work & Human Sciences
University of West London, 310 Paragon House, Brentford, TW8 9GA
T: 02082094127
Office Hours: Monday 3-5pm
Visiting Research Fellow
London School of Economics and Political Science
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London