Cognitive Interviewing. A Tool for Improving Questionnaire Design

By E. McColl. Quality of Life Research, 2006

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Contemporary Guidance for Stated Preference Studies (2017, methodology): “Considerable information is available on methods for qualitative pretesting (Mitchell and Carson 1989; Willis 2005; Groves et al. 2009; Krosnick and Presser 2010; Coast et al. 2012; Champ et al. 2017).”
The Three-Step Test-Interview (TSTI): An observation-based method for pretesting self-completion questionnaires (2008, methodology): “This is the format used in the example of a cognitive testing protocol given in Appendix 1 in Willis (2005).”
Development of the National Cancer Institute's patient-reported outcomes version of the common terminology criteria for adverse events (PRO-CTCAE). (2014, background): “However, combining multiple attributes within each single patient question is undesirable, because it is cognitively demanding to ask respondents to simultaneously appraise several attributes of their experience (26).”
Diagnostic Concordance Among Pathologists Interpreting Breast Biopsy Specimens (2015, neutral): “001 High (4-6) 1260 19 (15-24) 21 (17-26) 60 (55-65)”
Designing and testing questionnaires for children (2007, background): “Cognitive interviewing was developed during the 1980s through interdisciplinary collaboration between psychologists and survey methodologists, and is fast becoming a standard component in the development of large-scale surveys (Willis, 2004).”
Measuring strategic processing when students read multiple texts (2011, background): “Other possibilities are to conduct small-scale studies comparing scores on the inventory to think-aloud data or presenting individuals with particular items and interviewing them about the interpretation of those items (Willis 2005).”
Dietary Assessment Methodology (2017, methodology): “A thorough description of cognitive interviewing methods is found in Willis [459,460].”
Determining employee awareness using the Human Aspects of Information Security Questionnaire (HAIS-Q) (2014, background): “This required the expert to complete the survey with researchers present and to verbalise whatever came to mind while answering (Willis, 2004).”
Investigating the Substantive Aspect of Construct Validity for the Satisfaction with Life Scale Adapted for Children: A Focus on Cognitive Processes (2011, background): “, members of the target population) to investigate the cognitive processes that respondents use to answer questions (Collins 2003; Willis 2005).”
Research into Questionnaire Design: A Summary of the Literature (2010, background): “The next step in the questionnaire design process will be the cognitive (e.g, Jobe & Mingay 1989; Drennan 2003; Willis 2005) and quantitative piloting (e.g. Presser & Blair 1994; DeVellis 2003; Litwin”
Item Banks for Measuring Emotional Distress From the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®): Depression, Anxiety, and Anger (2011, methodology): “Cognitive interviews (based on the recommendations of Willis, 2005) were conducted with 41 participants using 238 items selected for potential inclusion in the item banks.”
Gender Differences in Time Spent on Parenting and Domestic Responsibilities by High-Achieving Young Physician-Researchers (2014, methodology): “We designed the questionnaires after review of the relevant literature; consideration of other instruments used to determine time allocation, responsibilities, and the outcomes of academic careers (18, 19); and cognitive pretesting (20).”
The importance of pretesting questionnaires: a field research example of cognitive pretesting the Exercise referral Quality of Life Scale (ER-QLS) (2017, methodology): “Consequently, a number of researchers have deemed that cognitive interviewing is best characterised as a combination of think-aloud and probing procedures (Jobe & Mingay, 1989; Sudnman, Bradburn, & Schwartz, 1996; Willis, 2005; Willis, Royston, & Bercini, 1991).”
Multi-Value Rule Sets (2017, background): “People avoid answering when they feel alerted or uncomfortable with the question [2, 23].”
Cognitive Interviewing Practice (2014, methodology): “We sometimes use the ‘windows example’ described by Gordon Willis (2005), which involves the participant counting up how many windows they have in their home.”
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).”