Can Questionnaire Item Ordering Affect the Inter-Item Relationships? An Empirical Example.

Autor/inn/en	Schurr, K. Terry; Henriksen, L. W.
Institution	Ball State Univ., Muncie, IN.
Titel	Can Questionnaire Item Ordering Affect the Inter-Item Relationships? An Empirical Example.
Quelle	(1980), (45 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Administrator Attitudes; Correlation; Elementary Secondary Education; Factor Analysis; Factor Structure; Inservice Education; Item Analysis; Questionnaires; Response Style (Tests); Teacher Attitudes; Test Construction; Test Format; Test Reliability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Korrelation; Faktorenanalyse; Faktorenstruktur; Berufsbegleitende Ausbildung; Itemanalyse; Fragebogen; Antwortverhalten; Lehrerverhalten; Testaufbau; Testentwicklung; Testreliabilität
Abstract	Five questionnaire forms containing 61 items specifying potential inservice topics for public school teachers were sent to a stratified random sample of Indiana public school administrators and curriculum supervisors. The five forms differed in that, for two forms, the items were ungrouped and appeared in different orders; and, for three forms, the items appeared in different orders and were presented within different labeled item groupings. A 68 percent return rate provided 1,468 useable questionnaires for the data analysis. An item-order effect was demonstrated by comparing Pearson product-moment correlations, covariance matrices, residuals resulting from a fixed factor structure, and factor loading patterns for the various questionnaire forms. The item-order effect appeared to be more pronounced for adjacent item pairs than for item pairs separated by one or two items. Only a marginal effect was demonstrated for item grouping with captions. It is probable that low-inference type items factor structures obtained from survey data are dependent upon item order, but only minimally affected by item grouping. (Author)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC