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Designing Effective Web Surveys

Designing Effective Web Surveys

Designing Effective Web Surveys

Mick P. Couper, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
November 2008
Paperback
9780521717946

    Designing Effective Web Surveys is a practical guide to designing web surveys, based on empirical evidence and grounded in scientific research and theory. It is designed to guide survey practitioners in the art and science of developing and deploying successful web surveys. The author guides the researcher through the steps involved, from the basic building blocks and suggests ways to increase visual impact and interactivity. Throughout, he considers the importance of layout and design, and attention is also given to the way questions are put together. The book is intended for academic, government, and market researchers who design and conduct web surveys.

    • Guides the reader through developing and designing effective web surveys
    • Based on solid research and empirical evidence
    • Uses examples to highlight the elements of good and bad survey design

    Awards

    A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009

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    Reviews & endorsements

    '… website designers interested in programming web surveys and those who already do will find this book useful in understanding how and why the design of these instruments matters from a survey research perspective.' Leah Melani Christian, Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

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    Product details

    November 2008
    Paperback
    9780521717946
    416 pages
    235 × 177 × 22 mm
    0.92kg
    207 colour illus. 1 table
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. The importance of design for web surveys
    • 2. The basic building blocks
    • 3. Going beyond the basics: visual and interactive enhancements to web survey instruments
    • 4. General layout and design
    • 5. Putting the questions together to make an instrument
    • 6. Implementing the design.