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Survey Research And Questionnaires: Research Methods in Library and Information Science, Made Clear for LIS and Other Research Students - Tapa blanda

Moore, Franklin A.

 
9798173403131: Survey Research And Questionnaires: Research Methods in Library and Information Science, Made Clear for LIS and Other Research Students

Sinopsis

This book is a practical guide to two inseparable skills: designing sound survey research and building the questionnaires that carry it out. Most research methods textbooks treat these as a minor subtopic inside a broader course. This book treats them as a subject worthy of full, dedicated study — from formulating a research question through to writing a finished, persuasive report.


The book is organized into five parts:

  • Foundational Frameworks of Inquiry — the empirical mindset, research design, and sampling theory that make a survey study credible before a single question is written
  • Instrumentation and Questionnaire Construction — the craft at the heart of the book: turning an abstract concept into a measurable question, writing sound items, building reliable psychometric scales, and sequencing a complete questionnaire a respondent can actually complete
  • Digital Administration and Ethical Paradigms — distributing a questionnaire through the appropriate platform and channel, and meeting the ethical and legal obligations of surveying human respondents
  • Specialised Domain Applications — applying survey research and questionnaire design to usability testing, service quality assessment, and community needs assessments
  • Analytical Operations and Reporting — cleaning and coding the data a questionnaire produces, analyzing it statistically and qualitatively, and reporting it in a way that informs real decisions


Every technique is demonstrated with a fully worked example rather than described only in the abstract — a real coding scheme, a real Likert-scale questionnaire item, a real chi-square calculation carried through step by step. Two appendices extend the book's practical value: a complete, ready-to-adapt questionnaire template, and an illustrative sample research report showing how a finished study built from that questionnaire actually reads.


No prior background in statistics is assumed. By the final chapter, readers will be able to design a sound study, build the questionnaire that carries it out, distribute it, analyze what comes back, and report it — the full arc the title promises, survey research and questionnaires both.

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