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====== Finding participants ====== | ====== Finding participants ====== | ||
- | If someone wants to take part in a survey, he or she needs to know the URL (web address) of the online questionnaire. The URL of your survey can be looked up at **Fragebogen zusammenstellen**. You can find more details on this in the chapter [[url|The link to your questionnaire]]. | + | If someone wants to take part in a survey, he or she needs to know the URL (web address) of the online questionnaire. The URL of your survey can be looked up at **Fragebogen zusammenstellen**. You can find more details on this in the chapter: "[[url|The link to your questionnaire]]". |
There are numerous options to publish survey invites and gather participants. | There are numerous options to publish survey invites and gather participants. | ||
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(Online) invitations which are meant to recruit participants should be composed carefully. The willingness to take part in an " | (Online) invitations which are meant to recruit participants should be composed carefully. The willingness to take part in an " | ||
- | In addition, the first page of any questionnaire strongly influences the total response rate. A short, neatly formatted text with a maximum of two paragraphs and the official logo of a university or a company signal a high-quality survey. On the contrary, an overly long wall of introduction text or seemingly never-ending batteries of items for single questions tend to scare respondents away. The same is true for an unprofessional layout (e.g. a centered text with lots of words highlighted with a bold font). ([[:de: | + | In addition, the first page of any questionnaire strongly influences the total response rate. A short, neatly formatted text with a maximum of two paragraphs and the official logo of a university or a company signal a high-quality survey. On the contrary, an overly long wall of introduction text or seemingly never-ending batteries of items for single questions tend to scare respondents away. The same is true for an unprofessional layout (e.g. a centered text with lots of words highlighted with a bold font). ([[:en: |
Therefore, you should take great care in designing the questionnaire and the cover letter. If you don´t have time for a real pretest of the whole survey, at least share the cover letter with colleagues or friends ("does this sound exciting"? | Therefore, you should take great care in designing the questionnaire and the cover letter. If you don´t have time for a real pretest of the whole survey, at least share the cover letter with colleagues or friends ("does this sound exciting"? | ||
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By allocating serial numbers to each e-mail address, you can make sure that each person on your list only participates once.([[: | By allocating serial numbers to each e-mail address, you can make sure that each person on your list only participates once.([[: | ||
- | oFb can be used to send serial e-mails to individual recipients ([[mailing| | + | oFb can be used to send serial e-mails to individual recipients ([[mailing| |
However, you should take great care never to include each e-mail address from your list in a single e-mail - neither as direct recipients nor via the CC or BCC option. | However, you should take great care never to include each e-mail address from your list in a single e-mail - neither as direct recipients nor via the CC or BCC option. |