Questionnaire Pretesting/Piloting These courses introduce the broad range of techniques currently available (both traditional and innovative) to test and improve survey questions, both for self-completion and interview surveys. These courses do not cover the testing of standardised multi-item scales as that is covered in the Multi-Item Scale Development course.		Recent Courses & Clients:
1½-Day Course Topics include: • Standard pilot testing • Systematic forms appraisal • Respondent debriefing • Behaviour coding • Cognitive interviewing • Focus groups for question testing • Comparing and combining techniques		1½-Day Course for • University of Hong Kong
2-Day Course Topics include: • Standard pilot testing • Expert review and systematic forms appraisal • Interviewer rating form • Respondent debriefing and vignettes • Classical behaviour coding and sequence-based   approaches • Cognitive interviewing and the 3 Step Test    Interview • Focus groups for question testing • Split ballot experiments • Comparing and combining techniques		2-Day Course for • JPSM Short Course series • University of Michigan Summer Institute
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