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Chapter 7 Recap Assignment-1

Chapter 7 Recap Assignment-1

Q Instructions: Please read the instructions carefully and contact me if you have any questions prior to submitting your work. After reading the chapter and reviewing the PowerPoint and supplemental readings on the course site, you should complete the following tasks: Questions: 1. You work at a local evaluation institute. You are hired by a partner to create a survey to measure knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to mental health in a population of Asian residents in Malden, MA. Your partner is interested in your thought related to survey distribution and is specifically wondering whether your survey should be distributed via mail, administered on the telephone, administered in person, or created and delivered through a web-based platform. Discuss these various strategies for survey implementation and list as many pros and cons as you can think of each below: Survey method Pros Cons Mail: Via telephone: In person: Web-based platform: Part 2: Creating Your Own Survey For this assignment, you will develop 8 survey questions on any topic that you are interested in. You will create your survey on Google Forms (you will need Google account for this; please create one if you don't have one already; Link to Google Forms (click on go to 'Google Forms' and once logged in, click on the + icon to begin creating your survey (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)). You should include close ended questions, ONE open ended question, ONE filter question and ONE likert-scale questions in your survey (to create a liker-scale question, please use the 'Multiple Choice Grid' style question to create your scale). You should also include no more than 3 demographic questions (e.g. age, sex, gender, etc.) Once your survey is constructed, please share the link in the discussion board in the module for this week (WEEK 9: Chapter 07: Survey Research) (NOTE: You should complete AT LEAST one of your classmates surveys) Here is a sample survey I created for you all: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_siMAmSKjhlUoFkklsnYzZcjSoUW4so3R4tAn1uRMH54N5A/viewform?usp=sf_link (Links to an external site.) You should also include the following (you can submit this part as a pdf or word doc write-up to this assignment link): • A description of the population of interest • A description of the sample of interest • A plan for how the sample will be selected and justification for why this sampling strategy was chosen (review from the chapter on sampling) • Limitations of the sampling strategy including a discussion about the generalizability of the findings obtained from this sample Assignment is Due on Monday Oct. 26 by 11:59 PM PreviousNext

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Survey Method Pros Cons Mail: 1. Could reach a lot of people and doesn't require much manpower as a whole. It is Normally reliable as well as people are not talked into choices. 2. I feel like this would be a very good and efficient way of targeting specific segments of people that we feel we need to target. 3. This would be good from a moral Perspective as people won't feel Talked into or forced into a specific Answer. 4. Can send out thousands of mail surveys within seconds