Is anyone intending to construct questionnaires or surveys as part of thier project?
I am researching what dance means to the users of a local dance community called Ludus Dance, it is key for me to remain fairly sensitive, and un assuming as possible throughout all my research and data collection processes, I am wanting to learn their experiences, not influence them with mine or gain inaccurate data by people answering in a way they think they 'should' answer. Wanting to consider opinions from a sample of Ludus's variety of users (professional dancers, youth dancers, dance therapy class students etc), does anyone have any thoughts on the best way to ensure the questionnaires themselves are actually filled out? Perhaps some of you are experiencing making the same decisions..... Does leaving forms in a reception area seem appropriate, will they been seen, is this intrusive to their 'space', will they be returned efficiently? Having other teachers hand them out would ensure they get to clients effectively, but may look like I can't be bothered to do it myself! Does the fact that people may choose to ignore them become a factor of my analysis? Maintaining anonymity seems like one of the most important factors here, perhaps suggesting a place for them to be left once filled in would be effective? Would love to share thoughts with anyone potentially facing similar issues......
2 comments:
We emailed about this. I think questionaires and there use is quite an interesting topic. I plan to blog on them, this week. What did you think of what I said.
Adesola
Sophie, I am planning on using Surveys as one of my main methods.. when piloted this method was one of the most beneficial ways of collecting data. However, I do feel this does depend on the respondent.
Therefore, my dance students will have a focus group but using similar questions from the Survey.
I feel that adapting is the key to find out exactly what you intend to find out, I think if using different respondents the questions have to be adapted and key elements such as background, language, age has to be altered.
Not sure whether that would help you or anything...But I feel after piloting most of the research methods and taking into consideration of my respondents these were the two I came up with to generalise my data and gain an outcome.
I keep reflecting on the older readers for ethics and time keeping etc...Do you? I think this will help us gain more knowledge on this and allow us to construct better questions for our interviews etc. I also found researching questionnaires interesting as there are so many ways you can construct them.
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