000			03409nam a22001937a 4500
020			_a9781446256015
041			_aEng
082			_a361.61072 _bCOL/COG
100			_aCollins, Debbie _91610431
245			_aCognitive Interviewing Practice
250			_a1st Edition
260			_aNew Delhi _bSage Publicatins Ltd _c2015
300			_axvi, 268p. _bSoft/Paper Bound
500			_aThe use of the cognitive interviewing method for survey question testing has proliferated and evolved over the past30 years. In more recent years the method has been applied to the evaluation of information letters and leaflets and to research consent forms. This book provides a practical handbook for implementing cognitive interviewing methods in the context of applied social policy research, based on the approach used by the authors at theNatCen Social Research(NatCen) where cognitive interviewing methods have been used for well over a decade. The book provides a justification for the importance of question testing and evaluation and discusses the position of cognitive interviewing in relation to other questionnaire development and evaluation techniques. Throughout the book, the focus is on providing practical and hands-on guidancearound elements such as sampling and recruitment, designing probes, interviewing skills, data management and analysis and how to interpret the findings and use them to improve survey questions and other documents. The book also covers cognitive interviewing in different survey modes, in cross national, cross cultural and multilingual settings and discusses some other potential uses of the method.
505			_aCognitive Interviewing, origin, purpose and Limitations, Other Pretesting Method, Planning a Cognotive Interviewing Project, Sampling and Recritment, Developing Interview Protocols, Conducting Cogitive Interviews, Data Management, Analysia and interpretation, Application of Finding, Survey Mode, its implications for cognitive Interviewing, Cross National Cross Cultural And Mutilingual Cognitive Interviewing, Wider Applications of Cognitive Interviewing
520			_aThe use of the cognitive interviewing method for survey question testing has proliferated and evolved over the past 30 years. In more recent years the method has been applied to the evaluation of information letters and leaflets and to research consent forms. This book provides a practical handbook for implementing cognitive interviewing methods in the context of applied social policy research, based on the approach used by the authors at the NatCen Social Research (NatCen) where cognitive interviewing methods have been used for well over a decade. The book provides a justification for the importance of question testing and evaluation and discusses the position of cognitive interviewing in relation to other questionnaire development and evaluation techniques. Throughout the book, the focus is on providing practical and hands-on guidance around elements such as sampling and recruitment, designing probes, interviewing skills, data management and analysis and how to interpret the findings and use them to improve survey questions and other documents. The book also covers cognitive interviewing in different survey modes, in cross national, cross cultural and multilingual settings and discusses some other potential uses of the method.
546			_aEnglish
942			_cBK
999			_c1056649 _d1056649