Survey form T1 p. 1
Thank you for agreeing to fill in this survey. Your responses will be completely anonymous. Your
name will NOT be associated with your responses. The entire survey should take about 10-15
minutes to complete.
For each question, mark a large“X” in the ONE box that best describes you or your opinion.
Background Questions
1. Please indicate your Age in years:
15-25 26-35 36-45 46-54 55+
2. Your gender (M/F)
Male Female
For the following four questions, it is possible to answer more than one question “Yes.”
3. Are you a small business owner (1-50 employees)?
4. Are you a medium-sized business owner (51-500 employees)?
5. Do you work for a large business (more than 500 employees) ?
6. Are you an active manager in any of the business(es) in which you work?
6a. About how many hours per day do you spend reading the newspaper or listening to news on
TV and Radio?
____________
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
Survey form T1 p. 2
6b. Please list ALL languages that you understand well other than Turkish:
__________________________________________________________________________
7. What is your Country of Citizenship? (write your answer below)
________________________________________
8. Yearly Personal Income (Select the range that best describes you):
Less than 5.001.000.000- Over
5.000.000.000 TL 44.000.000.000 TL 44.000.000.000 TL
9. Are you married?
10. Do you have children?
11. Do you rent your home or apartment, or do you own it?
12. What is your highest education level (check one only)?
Not finished Finished Some University Finished Advanced
High School High School or 2 year degree University University
(BA or BS) Degree
Please mark the box that best reflects your opinion:
13. I think that more people in Turkey should attend university.
14. The Turkish university system should be available to everyone.
Yes No
Yes No
Rent Own Other
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Survey form T1 p. 3
15. I have traveled extensively outside of Turkey.
16. I believe that ...
Answer TWO of the following questions.Each answer should.docx
Survey form T1 p. 1 Thank you for agreeing to fill in this
1. Survey form T1 p. 1
Thank you for agreeing to fill in this survey. Your responses
will be completely anonymous. Your
name will NOT be associated with your responses. The entire
survey should take about 10-15
minutes to complete.
For each question, mark a large“X” in the ONE box that best
describes you or your opinion.
Background Questions
1. Please indicate your Age in years:
15-25 26-35 36-45 46-54 55+
2. Your gender (M/F)
Male Female
For the following four questions, it is possible to answer more
than one question “Yes.”
3. Are you a small business owner (1-50 employees)?
4. Are you a medium-sized business owner (51-500 employees)?
2. 5. Do you work for a large business (more than 500 employees)
?
6. Are you an active manager in any of the business(es) in
which you work?
6a. About how many hours per day do you spend reading the
newspaper or listening to news on
TV and Radio?
____________
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
3. Yes No
Survey form T1 p. 2
6b. Please list ALL languages that you understand well other
than Turkish:
_____________________________________________________
_____________________
7. What is your Country of Citizenship? (write your answer
below)
________________________________________
8. Yearly Personal Income (Select the range that best describes
you):
Less than 5.001.000.000-
Over
5.000.000.000 TL 44.000.000.000 TL
44.000.000.000 TL
9. Are you married?
10. Do you have children?
4. 11. Do you rent your home or apartment, or do you own it?
12. What is your highest education level (check one only)?
Not finished Finished Some University Finished
Advanced
High School High School or 2 year degree University
University
(BA or BS) Degree
Please mark the box that best reflects your opinion:
13. I think that more people in Turkey should attend university.
14. The Turkish university system should be available to
everyone.
Yes No
Yes No
5. Rent Own Other
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Survey form T1 p. 3
15. I have traveled extensively outside of Turkey.
16. I believe that travel helps me to expand my mind.
17. Turkey should try to sell more domestic products abroad
(export more).
6. 18. Turkey should participate more in international business.
19. Turkish firms’ products would be welcomed in international
markets.
20. Turkish firms should sell more products internationally
rather than trying to expand
domestically.
21. Turkish firms should focus mostly on the Turkish market.
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
7. Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Yes No
Survey form T1 p. 4
22. I enjoy working in a “team” environment with other peopl e.
23. I prefer to work on projects alone.
8. 24. I like to invest in the stock market.
25. I like to drive fast cars.
26. I like to try new foods from different parts of the world.
27. I think the Turkish police have recently increased their
effectiveness.
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
9. Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Survey form T1 p. 5
28. The Turkish government is staffed by honest administrators.
29. I believe that the Turkish government does a good job
fighting terrorism.
10. 30. Turkey’s leaders are working hard to improve conditions for
its citizens.
31. Turkey should trade more with other countries.
32. Turkey should try to increase trade with the US.
33. Joining the EU will increase Turkey’s international trade
volume.
34. Joining the European Union will be good for Turkey.
11. 35. More Turkish students should go abroad to study.
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Survey form T1 p. 6
12. 36. Turkey should improve the quality of its domestic
universities.
37. I would like to have my own company.
For the next two questions, “creative professionals” refers to
designers and engineers.
38. Turkish creative professionals should focus their efforts
more on International Markets for
products.
39. Turkish creative professionals should be mainly interested
in creating products for the
domestic (Turkish) market.
13. 40. Turkish Engineers are very creative.
41. Turkish Engineers create great products for export.
42. Turkish Engineers should collaborate more with foreign
engineers.
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
14. Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Survey form T1 p. 7
43. Turkish manufacturers should invest in making products that
are better-suited for export to
other countries.
44. China is an important market for Turkish exporters.
45. China makes many products for export to Turkey that are
useful to Turkish people.
15. 46. Turkey will be a valuable member of the EU.
47. Turkey should not join the EU.
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
16. Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Survey form T1 p. 8
48. Turkey should join the EU with restrictions on free
movement of labor into the rest of the EU.
49. Turkey’s joining the EU as a full member will have a
negative impact on employment in
western European countries.
50. I like American music very much.
51. I like American movies very much.
17. 52 American style democracy can work in Turkey.
53. I admire the American democratic system.
54. The war in Iraq will eventually result in the world becoming
a better place.
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
18. Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Survey form T1 p. 9
55. I approve of US military action in Iraq.
56. I approve of US military intervention in Afghanistan.
57. The situation in Afghanistan is improving.
19. 58. I would welcome the addition of more American shops to
Turkey.
59. US clothing styles are appealing to me.
60. I admire the fact that many women work in America.
61. American women should stay home more and take care of
their children.
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
20. Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Survey form T1 p. 10
62. Companies doing a lot of international business are more
creative than companies doing mostly
domestic business.
63. Products designed for international markets are better
designed than products designed only for
21. domestic use.
64. The country of origin of the products that I buy is important
to me.
65. I prefer to buy domestically-produced products.
66. I worry about the effects of Turkey’s mostly Muslim people
on Europe.
67. If Turkey joins the European Union, there will be a flood of
Turkish immigrants into Western
Europe.
22. Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Survey form T1 p. 11
68. Turkey’s ability to successfully join the EU is negatively
affected by Turkey’s relations with
Armenia.
23. 69. Turkey’s ability to successfully join the EU is negatively
affected by the current situation in
Cyprus.
Thank you for filling in the survey.
70. If you have any remarks for the researcher, please write
them below in the space provided:
_____________________________________________________
__________________
_____________________________________________________
__________________
_____________________________________________________
__________________
_____________________________________________________
__________________
_____________________________________________________
__________________
24. _____________________________________________________
__________________
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Strongly Disagree No Agree Strongly
Disagree Opinion Agree
Thank you for agreeing to fill in this survey. Your responses
will be completely
anonymous. Your name will NOT be associated with your
responses. The entire survey
should take about 10 minutes to complete.
For each question, mark a large“X” in the ONE box that best
describes you or your
opinion.
B a c k g r o u n d Q u e s t i o n s
1. Please indicate your Age in years:
15-25 26-35 36-45 46-54 55+
0 1 2 3 4
2. Your gender (M/F)
Male Female
0 1
For the following four questions, it is possible to answer more
than one question “Yes.”
25. 3. Are you a small business owner (1-50 employees)?
Yes NO
1 0
4. Are you a medium-sized business owner (51-500 employees)?
Yes No
1 0
5. Do you work for a large business (more than 500 employees)?
Yes no
1 0
6. Are you an active manager in any of the business(es) in
which you work?
Yes no
1 0
6a.About how many hours per day do you spend reading the
newspaper or listening to
news on TV and Radio?
____________ ( B l a n k = 0 a s s u m i n g n o t i m e i s s
p e n t w a t c h i n g T V , & R a d i o ,
I F a r a n g e i s g i v e n , t h e m e a n w a s t a k i n g )
6b. Please list ALL languages that you understand well other
than Turkish: ( " - " = 0 ,
b e c a u s e t h e y a r e r e a d i n g a s u r v e y i n T u r k
i s h , T u r k i s h = 0 , T u r k i s h + o n e
l a n g u a g e = 1 , T u r k i s h + t w o l a n g u a g e s = 2
, T u r k i s h + g r e a t e r t h a n t w o
l a n g u a g e s = 3 )
7. What is your Country of Citizenship? (Write your answer
below) ( T u r k e y &
R e p u b l i c o f T u r k e y = 0 , o t h e r = 1 )
8. Yearly Personal Income (Select the range that best describes
26. you):
Less than 5.001.000.000- over
5.000.000.000 TL 44.000.000.000 TL 44.000.000.000 TL
9. Are you married? ( M u l t i p l e C h o i c e s , ? = B L A N
K )
Yes no
1 0
10. Do you have children?
Yes no
1 0
11. Do you rent your home or apartment, or do you own it?
Own rent & other (share living) rent & other = no owning
1 0
12. What is your highest education level (check one only)?
Not finished finished some university finished advanced
High school high school or 2 year degree university university
(BA or BS) degree
0 1 2 3 4
Please mark the box that best reflects your opinion:
13. I think that more people in Turkey should attend university.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
14. The Turkish university system should be available to
everyone.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
27. 0 1 2 3 4
15. I have traveled extensively outside of Turkey.
Yes no
0 1
16. I believe that travel helps me to expand my mind.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
17. Turkey should try to sell more domestic products abroad
(export more).
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
18. Turkey should participate more in international business.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
19. Turkish firms’ products would be welcomed in international
markets.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
20. Turkish firms should sell more products internationally
rather than trying to expand
domestically.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
21. Turkish firms should focus mostly on the Turkish market.
28. Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
4 3 2 1 0 (values reversed)
22. I enjoy working in a “team” environment with other people.
Strongly disagree no agree strongl y
Disagree opinion agree
4 3 2 1 0 (values reversed)
23. I prefer to work on projects alone.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
24. I like to invest in the stock market.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
4 3 2 1 0 (values reversed)
25. I like to drive fast cars.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
4 3 2 1 0 (values reversed)
26. I like to try new foods from different parts of the world. ( M
u l t i p l e C h o i c e s , ? =
B L A N K )
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
4 3 2 1 0 (values reversed)
27. I think the Turkish police have recently increased their
effectiveness.
29. Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
28. The Turkish government is staffed by honest administrators.
( M u l t i p l e C h o i c e s , ?
=
B L A N K )
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
29. I believe that the Turkish government does a good job
fighting terrorism.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
30. Turkey’s leaders are working hard to improve conditions for
its citizens.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
31. Turkey should trade more with other countries.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Diagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
32. Turkey should try to increase trade with the US.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
30. 33. Joining the EU will increase Turkey’s international trade
volume.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
34. Joining the European Union will be good for Turkey.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
35. More Turkish students should go abroad to study.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
36. Turkey should improve the quality of its domestic
universities.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
37. I would like to have my own company.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
For the next two questions, “creative professionals” refers to
designers and engineers.
38. Turkish creative professionals should focus their efforts
more on International
Markets for products.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
31. 39. Turkish creative professionals should be mainly interested
in creating products for the
domestic (Turkish) market.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
4 3 2 1 0 (values reversed)
40. Turkish Engineers are very creative
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
41. Turkish Engineers create great products for export.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
42. Turkish Engineers should collaborate more with foreign
engineers.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
43. Turkish manufacturers should invest in making products that
are better-suited for
export to other countries.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
44. China is an important market for Turkish exporters.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
32. Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
45. China makes many products for export to Turkey that are
useful to Turkish people.
( M u l t i p l e C h o i c e s , ? = B L A N K )
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
46. Turkey will be a valuable member of the EU. ( M u l t i p l e
C h o i c e s , ? = B L A N K )
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
47. Turkey should not join the EU.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
4 3 2 1 0 (values reversed)
48. Turkey should join the EU with restrictions on free
movement of labor into the rest of
the EU. ( M u l t i p l e C h o i c e s , ? = B L A N K )
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
49. Turkey’s joining the EU as a full member will have a
negative impact on employment
in
western European countries.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
33. 50. I like American music very much.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
51. I like American movies very much.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
52 American style democracy can work in Turkey.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
53. I admire the American democratic system.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
54. The war in Iraq will eventually result in the world becoming
a better place.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
55. I approve of US military action in Iraq.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
56. I approve of US military intervention in Afghanistan.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
34. Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
57. The situation in Afghanistan is improving.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
58. I would welcome the addition of more American shops to
Turkey.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
59. US clothing styles are appealing to me.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
60. I admire the fact that many women work in America.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
61. American women should stay home more and take care of
their children.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
4 3 2 1 0 (values reversed)
62. Companies doing a lot of international business are more
creative than companies
doing mostly domestic business.
35. Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
63. Products designed for international markets are better
designed than products
designed only for domestic use.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
64. The country of origin of the products that I buy is important
to me.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
4 3 2 1 0 (values reversed)
65. I prefer to buy domestically produced products.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
4 3 2 1 0 (values reversed)
66. I worry about the effects of Turkey’s mostly Muslim people
on Europe.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
67. If Turkey joins the European Union, there will be a flood of
Turkish immigrants into
Western Europe.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
4 3 2 1 (Values reversed)
68. Turkey’s ability to successfully join the EU is negatively
36. affected by Turkey’s
relations with Armenia.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
69. Turkey’s ability to successfully join the EU is negatively
affected by the current
situation in Cyprus.
Strongly disagree no agree strongly
Disagree opinion agree
0 1 2 3 4
Thank you for filling in the survey.
70. If you have any remarks for the researcher, please write
them below in the space
provided:
( " - " = B L A N K )
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Required Assignment: Survey/Code Book – IBUS 620
Revised V3.0, contains Parts 1 and 2
Part1 : The Survey/Code Book Assignment–Introduction and
Examples
37. Prompt:
Introduction.
In this assignment, you will make a short, but complete survey
and codebook on a topic of your
choice. Your survey must have an international business aspect
to it, whether it appears in the IVs
(independent variables) or the DV (dependent variable) or both.
You must submit both the survey
and codebook as ONE file (Word format preferred – .docx).
Important Advice:
Read this document slowly and carefully. It has been revised
and is now very useful for this
assignment!
Hint:
A sample survey file and sample code book file are included
with this assignment for your reference.
These can be very useful. See iLearn for these files.
Notes on terms:
We often use the word “question” to refer to an actual question
(ends with a “?”) as well as an
“item,” which is not really a question, but a statement that you
can agree or disagree with. In this
class, we use question and item interchangeably. In reality, all
questions are items, but not all items
are questions.
Also, we abbreviate the word Question by Q (one question) or
Qs for multiple questions.
First, read the rest of this document. It is immensely important
for this assignment.
Then, review the sample survey provided in the link below.
38. Then review the sample code book for that survey in the other
link provided below.
These are both long documents. Your survey will be much
shorter.
Now you are ready to write a short survey.
Proceed as follows:
1. Think of a research question, using the form below:
“What factors determine <my dependent variable>?”
Example:
What factors determine desire to study abroad among SF State
International Business students?
The research question identifies the dependent variable (DV),
the outcome you want to predict.
2. Create and state two directional testable hypotheses of
association.
Examples:
H1: As age increases, desire to study abroad decreases.
H2: As the number of languages spoken by students increases,
desire to study abroad increases.
Each testable hypothesis identifies both one independent
variable and the dependent variable (IV
and DV).
Research usually explores one dependent variable per study
(with exceptions). All hypotheses in a
particular research study almost always use the same dependent
variable, and only the IVs change
from hypothesis to hypothesis. So, looking at one predicted DV,
say, desire to study abroad, we can
39. be pretty confident that all the other testable hypotheses in the
paper will also have that DV, as in the
above examples, H1 and H2. Again there exceptions, but not for
this class.
3. Now write three Likert-scale items (or other types of items)
that probe each of your two
hypotheses (6 total items). Here, I use a couple of different
types of items besides Likert scales.
Examples:
H1 items –
1. Please check the age-range that includes your age:
18-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 Over 60
______ _____ _____ ____ _____
2. By my own standards, I consider myself to be young.
_______ ________ _______ ________
_________
Strongly Disagree Neutral Agree
Strongly
Disagree
Disagree
3. I like to consider myself as a person who “thinks like a young
person.”
_______ ________ _______ ________
_________
Strongly Disagree Neutral Agree
Strongly
40. Disagree
Disagree
H2 items –
4. I am very multi-lingual.
_______ ________ _______ ________
_________
Strongly Disagree Neutral Agree
Strongly
Disagree
Disagree
5. Please indicate how many languages you speak besides your
native language:
1 2 3 4
More than 4
_______ ________ _______ ________
_________
6. I am not fluent in any other languages, except for my native
language.
_______ ________ _______ ________
_________
Strongly Disagree Neutral Agree
Strongly
Disagree
Disagree
Notice the Question 6 (Q6) is worded negatively, so the coding
will be reversed. You need to
indicate this in your code book.
41. Also, note for Item 4, above, it may have occurred to you that “I
am very multi-lingual,” may not be
a wonderful measure of number of languages spoken. Maybe I
was in a hurry when I wrote that item
;-). We could keep this item in the survey, and if it turns out not
to be a good measure, we can drop it
because we have the other two items that we should be able to
use (Items 5 and 6 above). This is one
important reason why we develop multiple survey items to
measure each IV and the DV.
In “real world” surveys, however, we might commonly want to
have 4-5 items per measure, and not
3, but three is good enough for this assignment, since you are
not collecting and analyzing any data–
the skill you are learning is how to construct a survey and code
book.
Add three background questions. You should think of your own
original background questions
(except Gender—it’s OK to use that one—it’s a very commonly
used survey question). These are
typical examples:
7. What is your gender?
________ ________
Male Female
8. How many foreign countries have you traveled to during your
life?
1 2 3 4
More than 4
_______ ________ _______ ________
42. _________
9. Do you prefer to live in a country that is NOT your native
country?
Yes No
______ _______
Items to measure your dependent variable (DV). Write three
questions that do this.
Examples (I give four examples; you only need to write three):
10. I have a strong desire to study abroad.
_______ ________ _______ ________
_________
Strongly Disagree Neutral Agree
Strongly
Disagree
Disagree
11. I am not interested in studying abroad.
_______ ________ _______ ________
_________
Strongly Disagree Neutral Agree
Strongly
Disagree
Disagree
12. I am passionate about learning about other cultures.
_______ ________ _______ ________
43. _________
Strongly Disagree Neutral Agree
Strongly
Disagree
Disagree
13. I would enjoy living abroad for part of my university study
experience.
_______ ________ _______ ________
_________
Strongly Disagree Neutral Agree
Strongly
Disagree
Disagree
Notice the Question 11 (Q11) is worded negatively, so the
coding will be reversed. You need to
indicate this in your code book. We use reversed coding to
check for respondents who might agree
(or disagree) with everything, for example.
Controls. There are almost always some factors that you don’t
care about (you have no hypotheses
relating to them) but they affect the outcome you are trying to
predict, the DV. Often these are
background questions. Additionally, there may be some non-
background control questions that you
need to ask in order to “control” for the effects of these factors.
Here are two examples of such
questions. Remember you think these have a effect on the
outcome you want to predict, but you
44. don’t care about them—they are not a part of any theory
predictions you are testing. You are
including them so no one can review the research and say, for
example, “you forgot to account for
ability to write in a foreign language.”
Examples of control questions (I’m giving three examples–you
only need to write two):
14. Have you previously studied abroad?
Yes No
______ _______
15. Have any of your brothers or sisters studied abroad?
(if you have no brothers or sisters, answer “No”)
Yes No
______ _______
16. I do NOT enjoy eating the food of countries other than my
native country.
_______ ________ _______ ________
_________
Strongly Disagree Neutral Agree
Strongly
Disagree
Disagree
Order of the questions/items:
Put the background questions either before or after the
hypotheses questions—in a long survey, after
is better. You have a short survey, so you can put the
background Qs before the hypotheses Qs. Put
the DV Qs early in the survey, before the IV Qs. In a survey
you planning to actually distribute and
administer to a sample of people, you would mix up the order of
the questions. We don’t need to do
45. that here—it makes the survey easier to write and also to read.
Your complete survey should 14 total questions. This is your
target for your submission: 14 Qs. With
the exception of Gender, you must create all original questions,
as well as research question, and
hypotheses in your submission.
Key Details:
Give the survey a title.
Example:
“Survey on Attitudes Towards Study Abroad”
Create a short introduction paragraph. See the example
introduction in the sample survey file
below. You can use that text, or write something similar but
using your own original phrasing
(preferred).
Submit your work via Turnitin.com at the link given below.
This assignments
Opens on Sept. 15, 2019, at0000hrs, and
Closes on Dec. 2, 2019, at 2359hrs.
Summary of the deliverables for Survey and Items (14
items/questions total):
Introductory paragraph (brief) explaining the survey.
6 total hypothesis (independent variable) questions (3 for each
46. hypothesis).
3 background questions.
3 dependent variable questions.
2 control questions
The code book:
Review the sample codebook. It’s a great guide on how to create
a code book. It is simply a survey,
but you fill in the numbers you would score for each response.
Examples (from the above items):
9. Do you prefer to live in a country that is NOT your native
country?
Yes No
___1___ ___0____
10. I have a strong desire to study abroad.
___1___ ___2____ ___3____ ___4___
___5___
Strongly Disagree Neutral Agree
Strongly
Disagree
Disagree
Remember to reverse to coding for negatively worded questions.
Example:
16. I do NOT enjoy eating the food of countries other than my
native country.
___5___ ___4___ ___3___ ___2____
___1____
47. Strongly Disagree Neutral Agree
Strongly
Disagree
Disagree
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IMPORTANT: Submitting the assignment.
There is one link (on iLearn) for submitting one document
containing both the survey and
code book. Use your last name in the filenames for both files.
This will help us put things
together for the evaluation of your work.
Example of a good filename:
SmithSurveyCodebookIBUS620.docx
(Use only Word or PDF files – Word is preferred ! .docx)
The next section (Part 2) deals with the content of a Research
Question and Hypotheses in great
detail. It will also help you complete this assignment with a
minimum of issues. Please read the last
part of this document carefully.
Part 2: Crucial details on wording in research questions and
hypotheses
This clarifying and explanatory material can help everyone in
the class. The source of this document,
like many of the best resources in this class, is a student’s
questions. I am grateful to students who
ask questions. Thank you.
I have elaborated and refined the IBUS 620 Team's response to
48. the student. I believe you will all find
this useful!
First, as elsewhere, I abbreviate dependent variable as DV, and
independent variable as IV in this
note.
Second, my main comment, which holds for all the questions
below is that things need to be (1)
measurable, and (2) measurable using a survey (these are two
important conditions for the Res. Q
and hypotheses).
Our student has crafted a technically OK Research Q and two
hypotheses, but are they measurable,
and if so, are they measurable BY A SURVEY INSTRUMENT?
Again, this comment goes for
everything in this note--read on!
Student's first question:
1. Re: Research Question: Is this survey [research] question is
okay:
"What factors determine the importance of international
students attending Skyline College?"
Comments:
Should be "Research Question", not Survey Question. The
research question specifies only the
dependent variable (DV). Hypotheses specify both the IVs and
the DV.
Also, in the above research question, "importance" is rather
hard to measure and too abstract an idea
for a dependent variable in this case. I'd drop that as a DV. So
we need a new DV.
49. I prefer (for example):
"What factors determine favorable attitude towards US culture
among international students
attending Skyline College?"
Here, "degree of favorable attitude towards US culture" is a
measurable DV, and it's measurable by a
survey! It works! One possible survey item to measure this DV:
"I think US culture is great."
___Strongly Disagree ___Disagree ___Neutral
___Agree ___Strongly Agree
NOTE: a survey item measures ONLY ONE THING AT A
TIME. It is a common mistake to try
to measure two things (e.g., the IV and DV) with poorly worded
survey items.
Note that "attitudes towards US culture" is much more specific,
and hence more easily measurable by
survey, than importance.
Student's second question:
2. Re: Hypotheses--"Are these hypotheses OK?" (I'm
paraphrasing here)
For the student's original draft H1:
As International Student enrollment increases, their drop-out
rate decreases.
Comments:
The DV and IVs are not measurable by a survey, though they
50. could be measured in other ways--we
want to explore survey-friendly hypotheses in this class.
I strongly prefer, for example, and using my Res. Q from above:
H1: As an international student's English language skills
increase, his/her attitude towards US culture
is increasingly positive. [DV is attitude towards US culture, IV
is strength of English language skills].
Here’s the learning message from the above paragraph on
revised H1:
As A increases, B increases -- this is the general form of the
hypotheses we want students to make.
That's what we see in H1. Another form that would be OK is
"As A decreases, B increases. We don't
have a need for that format here. I go deeper into this area
(wording hypotheses) in other materials
you have already been assigned and have hopefully read.
For the student's original draft H2:
H2: As the international student transfer rate to Universities
increases, the desire to attend Skyline
College increases.
Comments:
International student transfer rate does not seem measurable by
a survey question to me--this is an
institutional-level set of data (not survey-able) that one would
normally have no access to because of
privacy issues. We need IVs we can measure via a survey
instrument.
Though, interestingly, "desire to attend Skyline College" is
well-measurable via a survey, so the
student could go ahead and use it in both hypotheses for the
DV, no problem.
51. To be consistent in my existing examples, however, I am
sticking to my revised dependent variable,
"attitude towards US culture," from above, for H2. So H1 and
H2 have the same DV--this is also
key. Typically, the IV changes from one hypothesis to the next,
NOT the DV (another important
learning takeaway). The reason is that each distinct DV needs
its own regression analysis, but you can
have multiple IVs in one regression equation. Testing theory
works well this way! You have one DV,
and you want to know what factors (IVs) have an effect on it
(the DV). One regression model will do
the job--tells you what matters and what does not.
I again emphasize that the student's original DV for H2, "desire
to attend Skyline College," is
definitely measurable by a survey, and would make a fine DV
for the research question, and also both
hypotheses.
Here, however, for completeness, is my corrected version of H2,
using my own DV, "attitude
towards US culture."
H2: International transfer students have a more positive attitude
towards US culture than non-
transfer students at Skyline College.
The wording above is a little different from the above examples,
but this works. You would not say
H2: As a student is increasingly a transfer student, their attitude
towards US culture is increasingly
positive.
It's awkward, since an international student is either a transfer
student or not! This is why the
wording above that I have suggested for H2 is fine.
52. Pushing further into the assignment, we would write and code
(book) the survey question for this IV
as follows...
How it might look in the Survey:
Are you a transfer student?
____Yes ____No
How it might look in the Code Book:
...and code it in the code book as follows:
Are you a transfer student?
__0__Yes __1__No
The required survey items could all be written from these
hypotheses (don't forget the "control"
measures--see the prompt). See my previous explanatory
material on iLearn, as well as the previous
email on some of the other important aspects of this assignment.
You need to read this material to
get the complete picture.
The IBUS 620 Team hopes this helps you in both understanding
and completing the assignment.
Questions? Email us!
-Prof. Heiman and the IBUS 620 Team