| Title: | The Effect of Question Order on Responses to Interview Questions* |
| Meeting: | 126th AAPT National Meeting: Austin, TX |
| Location: | Trinity B |
| Date: | Wednesday, Jan. 15 |
| Time: | 10:15 a.m. |
| Author: |
Kara Gray, Kansas State
Univ. 785-532-7167, keg9634@ksu.edu |
| Co-Author(s): | N. Sanjay Rebello, Dean A. Zollman |
| Abstract: | Educators and researchers often assume that the order of questions on a test or survey is unimportant. Is this assumption valid? This study follows up on our previous investigation1 of how the order of related questions or inclusion of unrelated questions affect students’ responses on a multiple-choice survey. We used a think-aloud protocol to interview students as they worked through two sets of related questions. Students were also asked to describe the similarities and differences between questions, and their thoughts on how the questions related to each other. Interviews were conducted both before and after instruction. We will present the methodology and results of our study. |
| Footnotes: |
*Supported in part by NSF
grant #0087788. +Sponsored by N. Sanjay Rebello. 1. Kara Gray, et. al. "The Effect of Question Order on Student Responses to Multiple-choice Questions," 125th AAPT National Meeting (2002). |