Cognitive Interviewing: A Tool for Improving Questionnaire Design

By G. Willis. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Advancing innovation in the public sector: Aligning innovation measurement with policy goals (2019, background): “The two main goals of cognitive testing are to ensure that respondents understand survey questions as intended and can provide reasonably accurate responses (Willis, 2005).”
Developing questionnaires for educational research: AMEE Guide No. 87 (2014, methodology): “One means of collecting such evidence is achieved through a process known as cognitive interviewing or cognitive pre-testing (Willis 2005).”
When law students read multiple documents about global warming: examining the role of topic-specific beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing (2010, background): “One possible way to further clarify this issue might be to conduct cognitive interviewing ( Willis 2005 ) where participants are asked about their interpretation of items written to measure a particular epistemic belief dimension (see Bra ˚ten and Olaussen 2000, for a similar procedure used with sel”
Measure Twice, Cut down Error: A Process for Enhancing the Validity of Survey Scales (2011, background): “Thus, experts often advise identifying clear trends from multiple respondents about a potentially problematic item before making changes (Willis, 2005).”
Measures of Program Effectiveness Based on Retrospective Pretest Data: Are All Created Equal? (2011, background): “The SMP consists of 145 items designed to measure perceived managerial competence on 11 skills and 12 attributes (Wilson, 2006). Wilson (1978) provided evidence indicating that SMP scale scores demonstrated dimensionality, item accountability, reliability, reproducibility, as well as the ability to ”
Embedding the Organizational Culture Profile Into Schwartz’s Theory of Universals in Values (2011, methodology): “By studying the items that did not fit well into the exploratory MDS plane with methods such as cognitive pretesting (Willis, 2005), it will be possible to check the validity of the classifications and the usefulness of the particular items for measurement purposes.”
Observer ratings of instructional quality: Do they fulfill what they promise? (2012, methodology): “” For all subsamples, the regular ratings for the last of the three instructional sequences were supplemented with this additional prompt directly after every answered item (see also DeMaio & Rothgeb, 1996; Foddy, 1998; Willis, 2005).”
Why researchers should think "real-time": A cognitive rationale. (2012, neutral): “Bradburn, N., Sudman, S., & Wansink, B. (2004).”
Preparing for Interview Research: The Interview Protocol Refinement Framework (2016, background): “…as they work through their responses to interview questions can elucidate whether questions are clear, whether interviewees believe they have relevant answers, and whether aspects of questions are vague or confusing and need to be revised (Fowler, 1995; Hurst et al., 2015; Willis, 1999, 2004).”
Qualitative research and content validity: developing best practices based on science and experience (2009, methodology): “Researchers should decide on a case-by-case basis the most appropriate method to use by clearly identifying the objectives of the proposed cognitive debriefing interviews and taking into consideration the content, format and mode of administration [ 35 , 36].”