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--- en:survey:participants [05.02.2013 21:41] – jschmalz
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 ====== 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 [[Creating and Designing the Questionnaire]]. 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.
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 (Online) invitations which are meant to recruit participants should be composed carefully. The willingness to take part in an "interesting survey" for a "new field of research" is generally rather high; in contrast, the request "I urgently need participants to complete my bachelor degree" is not likely to motivate potential respondents.([[invitation|Optimize survey invitation cover letter]]).
-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:create:tips#formatierung|Tips for the Survey Design]]).
+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:create:tips|Tips for the Survey Design]]).
 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"?) to find out whether it is effective.
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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.([[:en:create:access|Access restrictions]]).
-oFb can be used to send serial e-mails to individual recipients ([[mailing| Serienmails verschicken]]). Alternatively, you can revert to Microsoft Outlook and Word, or a similar program.
+oFb can be used to send serial e-mails to individual recipients ([[mailing| Sending serial e-mails]]). Alternatively, you can revert to Microsoft Outlook and Word, or a similar program.
 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.