Are We Asking the Right Questions? Using Cognitive Interviews to Improve Surveys in Education Research

By Laura Desimone, Kerstin Carlson Le Floch. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Information Systems and Management, Management Science and Operations Research

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Assessing Barriers to the Reform of U.S. Mathematics Instruction From an International Perspective (2005, background): “…on anonymous surveys such as TIMSS are less susceptible to such bias than more public data collection forums such as interviews or focus groups (Aquilino, 1994, 1998; Dillman & Tarnai, 1991; Fowler, 1995; see Desimone & LeFloch, 2004, for a discussion of the uses and quality of survey data).”
Improving Survey Methods With Cognitive Interviews in Small- and Medium-Scale Evaluations (2012, background): “The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.”
Using social network methods to study school leadership (2009, background): “Following Desimone and colleagues’ work on improving the reliability and validity of surveys in educational research (Desimone and Le Floch 2004 ), we had teachers ‘think aloud’ as they completed the online survey, and then asked follow‐up questions where appropriate to further explore their thinki”
Motivating Action through Fostering Climate Change Hope and Concern and Avoiding Despair among Adolescents (2015, methodology): “Additionally, we completed cognitive interviews [28] with five students to gather general feedback and suggestions for improvement in item wording and clarity as well as assessing construct validity (e.”
Cognitive Processing of Self-Report Items in Educational Research: Do They Think What We Mean? (2007, background): “Obtaining such evidence represents a growing trend in educational research to employ qualitative techniques to improve the validity of self-report assessment within an overall quantitative research agenda (eg, Desimone & Le Floch, 2004 ).”
Developing a Psychometrically Sound Assessment of School Leadership: The VAL-ED as a Case Study (2010, background): “In the second stage, interviewers ask specific questions of respondents about item or response choice interpretation (for a full description of the cognitive interview methodology, see Desimone & LeFloch, 2004).”