Pretesting Questionnaires for Children and Adolescents

By E. de Leeuw, N. Borgers, A. Smits. 2004

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Designing and testing questionnaires for children (2007, background): “Questions with a complex structure, such as those which are double-barrelled or hypothetical, tend to cause particular problems for children (Amato and Ochiltree, 1987; De Leeuw et al., 2004).”
Telephone Versus Face-to-Face Interviews (2013, background): “As children can be very literal, depersonalized or indirect questions should be checked very carefully’’ (De Leeuw et al. 2004:414).”
Survey Research in Public Administration: Assessing Mainstream Journals with a Total Survey Error Framework (2012, background): “To reduce these sources of error, focus groups, expert reviews, pretesting, and other questionnaire design strategies are necessary for the refi nement of questionnaires (e.g., De Leeuw, Borgers, and Smits 2004), yet we observed only a few studies that reported such activities.”