Questionnaires and Inventories
Questionnaires & Inventories The use of
questionnaires and inventories as a means of obtaining useful information about
populations, individuals, products, and events has existed since the nineteenth
century. But it wasn’t until the twentieth century and the development of
modern statistical methods, and, more recently, the advent of digital
technology that they came to be considered indispensable tools in a wide range
of fields, including the behavioral and social sciences, education, health, and
business. Questionnaires and Inventories is written for researchers and
practitioners in the above-mentioned disciplines and for all others who rely
upon these important tools-of-the-trade. Written by a well-known authority in the
field, it is a complete, how-to guide to the construction, administration,
analysis, and interpretation of all types of questionnaires and inventories
After a concise
review of the historical origins and theoretical underpinnings of assessment
tools and rating scales, Dr. Aiken presents chapters providing detailed,
hands-on coverage of the construction, administration, scoring, and
interpretation of questionnaires, psychological inventories, and population
surveys. Following chapters feature in-depth discussions of the statistical
analysis of data, as well as test reliability and validity. The final two
chapters are devoted to the critical assessment of most commercially available
questionnaires and
Figure 1.Questionnaire
inventories. Questionnaires and Inventories includes
many features designed to help readersquickly master the skills they need to
construct their own assessment tools, including helpful chapter-end summaries,
bibliographies, quizzes, and practice exercises. Perhaps the most valuable didactic
tool is the diskette, which contains a power-house of programs that readers
will find invaluable in designing, constructing, administering, scoring, and
evaluating all types of questionnaires and inventories. Questionnaires and
Inventories is an indispensable tool for practitioners in the behavioral and
social sciences, as well as for market research professionals, attitude and
product researchers, and political pollsters. It is also an excellent
supplemental text for upper-level graduate courses in psychology, education,
sociology, health studies, political science, and other disciplines. Inventory is more often used to measure personality traits
and vocational tendencies, for
instance.
Questionnaire and inventory, both are the types of
surveys. Questionnaire contains questions which are simple to answer. These
questions are often related to specific subjects and are asked in order to
gather the information. Inventory is the list of characters or skills which are
selected. It is a more precise and specified list or report or record of
skills, features, interests etc. Questionnaire is a research instrument
consisting of a series of
questions for gathering information from respondents or participant .A
questionnaire is an effective method for measuring the behavior, attitudes,
preference, and choice of relatively large group of people.
The questionnaire is
important in research because a questionnaire is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions and other
prompts for the purpose of gathering information from respondents thus , for some
demographic groups conducting
a survey by questionnaire may not be concrete. A questionnaire consists of a
variety of the questions printed or typed
in a definite order on a form which are mailed further to the respondent
.The respondent has to answer these questions on his own.
The main function or the
objective of the questionnaire is to collect data from the respondent , who are
generally scattered in a vast diverse area.
This method also helps in
the collection of reliable and dependable data.
Differences between
Interest and Inventory
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Questionnaire
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Inventory
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It contains
questions which are simple to answer.
It is a form
of obtaining a set of question , especially one addressed to a statistically
significant number of subjects as a way of gathering information for a
survey.
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It is the
list of characters or skills which are selected.
It is more
precise and specified list or report or record or record of skills, features,
interests etc.
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Questionnaire
asks questions often requiring relatively simple answers, sometimes just true or false.
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Inventories often list skills or characteristics that
may be rated or chosen and often commented upon.
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Questions
are often related to specific subjects and are asked in order to gather the
information
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An inventory
is more of detailed, itemized list, report, or record of
characteristics, skills, interests
etc.
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