This course is aimed at giving participants a thorough grounding in questionnaire design. This course will be highly participatory, with sessions aimed at providing hands-on experience of designing questionnaires and survey questions, for quantitative social research.
By the end of the course participants should:
A general familiarity with quantitative research methods is assumed, but it is not necessary to have experience of using these methods. You will find this course useful if:
Ruxandra Comanaru is a Research Director working in the Questionnaire Development and Testing Hub at NatCen. Since joining NatCen, Ruxandra has worked of a variety of projects, designing questionnaires, as well as using cognitive interviews to test and refine the questions. Ruxandra also combines cognitive methods with usability testing methods to ensure that online questionnaires (desktop and mobile) are fit for purpose. Prior to joining NatCen, Ruxandra was a Lecturer in Quantitative and Qualitative Social Research Methods at Birkbeck, University of London. She completed a PhD in Applied Linguistics and Communication at Birkbeck.
Course fee payable to SRA.
This course contributes 6 hours to the MRS CPD programme