2.  Questionnaires are a list of Pre-Set
questions
 These questions are usually:
Closed Questions
Open-Ended Questions 1) What are your Religious beliefs?
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3.  They produce reliable data  The researcher has decided
 People can take their time to what to ask and may choose
think of appropriate a biased set of questions
answers  Response rates vary
 They can reach a large depending on the way the
number of people. questionnaire is distributed
 They are a quick way to  Respondents might rush
collect a lot of data through the questions
 They are relatively cheap to especially if it is a long
produce questionnaire
 Questions may be
misunderstood and the
respondent cannot ask for an
explanation
 Responses may lack validity

4. You are going to be given a list of questions you
need to decided whether they are open or closed
questions and stick them in the right column. Set
out your columns as below:
Open questions closed questions
What is your favourite day Do you like Mondays?
of the week?

5.  You are going to be asked to design a
questionnaire either using closed questions or
open questions to find out information on school,
sport or if you have your own ideas, use them. (
check with me first!)
 You need to first decide on an hypothesis and then
write 10 questions to gain information to help you
to get an answer to your question.
 Hand the questionnaires to me and I will distribute
them to members of the class to complete and then
hand them back to you to analyse.