PEDA4035-1 : Construction and analysis of questionnaires

Study Programmes 2016-2017

PEDA4035-1

Construction and analysis of questionnaires

Duration :

15h Th, 30h Pr

Number of credits :

Master in education (120 ECTS)		4

Lecturer :

Dominique Lafontaine

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents :

Development of questions, scales and items measuring sociodemographics, socio-affective constructs and contextual variables in education. questionnaires.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit :

The learning outcomes of this seminar are the following ones :

explore different frameworks for background questionnaires and non cognitive variables
reflect about an assessment framework; select skills, processes, contents and aspects to assess, develop questions and items in order to measure adequately constructs;
know and apply the technical guidelines in order to build items and questionnaires;
collect accurately data and code the data in an appropriate way;
perform the appropriate analyses in order to check for the psychometric properties of the items and scales: alpha of Cronbach alpha, factorial analysis...;
interpret the analyses and draw the conclusions for reviewing the instruments;
write a report presenting the results of the tests and questionnaires.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Having succeeded the course Notions de statistiques de base (C. Monseur, bloc 0).

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Theory and practical classes are closely linked. The approach is problem-based learning. After a couple of theoretical classes, students have to build, analyse, revise items and questions for background questionnaires.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Actual classes