Pretesting survey instruments: An overview of cognitive methods

By D. Collins. Quality of Life Research, 2003

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The positive effect of negative emotions in protracted conflict: The case of anger (2011, methodology): “…a sample of college students who had very little familiarity with this issue and were led to believe that de-escalatory negotiations were approaching, reconstructing the natural conditions 4 To verify content validity of this measure, we carried out a cognitive pretest (see Collins, 2003).”
Experimental Impacts of the “Quality Preschool for Ghana” Interventions on Teacher Professional Well-being, Classroom Quality, and Children’s School Readiness (2018, methodology): “First, we conducted five cognitive interviews with teachers to assess whether they understood each question, both consistently across constructs and in the way the item was intended (Collins, 2003).”
A guide for the design and conduct of self-administered surveys of clinicians (2008, background): “Although pilot testing can detect overt problems with the questionnaire, it rarely identifies their origins, which are generally unveiled during pre-testing.(23) Clinical sensibility testing focuses on how well the questionnaire addresses the topic of interest and the survey objective.”
A perspective on scale development in entrepreneurship research (2012, background): “Pre-testing is generally agreed to be an indispensable stage in survey development (Collins, 2003; Dillman et al., 2009; Presser & Blair, 1994; Presser et al., 2004), thus the survey should be pre-tested with people who have specialized knowledge on some aspects of questionnaire quality (Dillman et ”
A review of the methodological misconceptions and guidelines related to the application of structural equation modeling: A Malaysian scenario (2017, background): “We would encourage the postgraduate students to read articles by Hulland et al. (2017), Rowley (2014), Grimm (2010), Collins (2003), and Drennan (2003), amongst others, as they will give you a better understanding of the subject matter, in addition to being good citations.”
Development and validation of an instrument for assessing job demands arising from accelerated change: The intensification of job demands scale (IDS) (2015, methodology): “The think-aloud technique, which is respondent-driven (Collins, 2003), was used to determine the thoughts that led participants to their responses (Prüfer & Rexroth, 1996).”
Non-wood forest products in Europe – A quantitative overview (2020, background): “The purpose of the pre-testing (Collins, 2003) was to account for shared understanding of the questionnaires' text, respondent fatigue, and possible missing response categories.”
Investigating the Substantive Aspect of Construct Validity for the Satisfaction with Life Scale Adapted for Children: A Focus on Cognitive Processes (2011, background): “However, in order to develop and/or validate an instrument, it is recommended to use experiential experts (i.e., members of the target population) to investigate the cognitive processes that respondents use to answer questions (Collins 2003; Willis 2005).”
The COMET Handbook: version 1.0 (2017, background): “Where the qualitative work has a very specific focus; for example, informing an online Delphi survey for a particular stakeholder group, interviewing might focus on a prototype of the survey and use think-aloud techniques [103, 104] to explore how stakeholders interpret the outcomes and how the phra”
Determining employee awareness using the Human Aspects of Information Security Questionnaire (HAIS-Q) (2014, methodology): “The cognitiveprobesprovidedby Collins (2003) were used as a guide.”
The importance of pretesting questionnaires: a field research example of cognitive pretesting the Exercise referral Quality of Life Scale (ER-QLS) (2017, background): “There is generally no consensus regarding best practices (Beatty & Willis, 2007; Presser et al., 2004) and Collins (2003) has identified that *Email: charlotte.hilton@coventry.ac.uk © 2015 Taylor & Francis International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2017 Vol. 20, No. 1, 21–34,…”