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After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Design a survey or questionnaire to answer a research question or test a hypothesis.
- Select the survey format (face-to-face, telephone, self-report, web, email) that will best serve the purpose of the survey.
- Select existing or design appropriate questionnaire items and response sets.
- Use open and closed questions appropriately.
- Pretest the method of data collection.
- Collect the data in an honest and ethical manner.
- Analyze the data completely and appropriately.
- Draw conclusions that do not overstate the limitations of your data or sample.
- Present the data to others in an appropriate fashion.
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