7400.685-080 - Research Methods in FCS
School of Family and Consumer Sciences
http://www3.uakron.edu/witt/rmfcs/rmfcs.htm
Spring Semesters - Tuesday Evenings 5:20-7:55pm in 209 Schrank Hall South
Instructor: David D. Witt, Ph.D.
Key Terms for Chapter 4
For this homework assignment, define each of the terms in the tables below.  All these terms come from the textbook chapters

                    Chapter 4 - Survey Research
    dichotomous question
    dual-media survey
    email survey
    filter or contingency question
    focus group
    group interview
    interval level response
    Likert scale
    multioption variable
    nominal response format
    ordinal response format
    response brackets
    response format
    response scale
    single-option variable
    structured response formats
    telephone interview
     web survey     
  
                         Chapter 5 - Scales and Indexes
dichotomous response scale
Guttman scaline
index
interval response scale
Likert scale
response scale
scaling
semantic differential scale
Thurstone scaling
weighted index