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Analyse Questionnaires

In this worksheet, students will analyse questions from a questionnaire.

'Analyse Questionnaires' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 4

Year:  GCSE

GCSE Subjects:   Maths

GCSE Boards:   AQA, Eduqas, Pearson Edexcel, OCR,

Curriculum topic:   Statistics

Curriculum subtopic:   Statistics Sampling

Difficulty level:  

Worksheet Overview

When you are collecting data, you frequently need to speak to people to gather the information that you are looking for.

To do this you would normally use a questionnaire.

 

When designing questions for a questionnaire, there are some rules that you need to stick to so that the information you collect isn't biased (unfair).

 

Rule 1:

Never ask a leading question designed to get a certain response

Bad question: I think action films are the best, do you agree?

Improved question: What is your favourite type of film?

 

Rule 2:

Never ask a personal or irrelevant question

Bad question: How old are you?

Improved question: Which of the following age ranges do you fit into?

 

Age range chart

 

Rule 3:

Make sure the ranges don't overlap

Bad question: How many hours do you exercise a week?

 

0 - 1   

1 - 2   

2 - 4

 

Note that for this one, if you exercised for two hours, you wouldn't know which box to enter the data in.

 

Improved question:

How many hours do you exercise a week?

 

0 < x ≤ 1   

1 < x ≤ 2

2 < x ≤ 3

 

Using the inequalities allows us to cover each option but not duplicate them.

 

Rule 4:

Cover all the options

Bad question: What colour is your hair? Red, black, brunette, blonde

Improved question: What colour is your hair? Red, black, brunette, blonde, none, other

 

The usual way you can deal with this is to put options for none or other (if they are appropriate).

 

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