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Can a research question have multiple questions?
Depending on the scope of your research, you may identify just one question or several. You may also have one primary research question and several secondary questions or sub-questions that relate to the same problem.
What is an ambiguous question?
An ambiguous question in a survey results when various people interpret some word or phrase in different ways. The above election-meddling question contains four words that form how you interpret what the question is asking. (Researchers would say these words “operationalize the construct.”)
How can you tell if your research questions are really good?
In general, however, a good research question should be:
- Clear and focused. In other words, the question should clearly state what the writer needs to do.
- Not too broad and not too narrow.
- Not too easy to answer.
- Not too difficult to answer.
- Researchable.
- Analytical rather than descriptive.
What are the three kinds of questions used in questionnaires?
Questionnaire question types
- Open ended questions. As the name implies, these questions are open for the respondent to answer with more freedom.
- Multiple choice questions. This question presents the respondent with a list of answer options and they can select one or more.
- Dichotomous questions.
- Scaled questions.
What type of questions are in a questionnaire?
Types of survey questions
- Multiple choice questions.
- Rating scale questions.
- Likert scale questions.
- Matrix questions.
- Dropdown questions.
- Open-ended questions.
- Demographic questions.
- Ranking questions.
What is a sub question?
Sub-questions are narrower questions. They are important because they provide the ‘skeleton’ around which you will find information to answer your main research question. Good sub-questions should: Be ‘open’ questions (This means that they cannot be answered with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer.