Satificing Surveys

Factors that impact on Question Answer:
Factors that impact on question answering include developmental effects including language ability, reading age, and motor skills, as well as temperamental effects such as confidence, self-belief and the desire to please.
Research into the completion of surveys has revealed four major concerns that are important in understanding how children respond to surveys and therefore important to consider in the design of surveys. The first two, Satisfying and Optimizing and Suggestibility, are phenomena that will have an impact on the design of survey studies. The second two, language effects and question formats, are rather more concerned with the detailed design of the question and answer processes.
Satisficing And Optimizing
Satisficing theory identifies two processes that explain some of the differences in the reliability of responses, especially in

The Smileyometer is an adequate tool for an easy and attractive method of scoring an opinion but is more useful with older children. There is no real point in using a Smileyometer and an Again –Again table as both measure the same construct, having said which, there have been instances where the Again – Again table has seemed to have more validity, possibly due to the shift in the emphasis of the evaluation (it is hypothesized that in the Again – Again table, younger children are less likely to be affected by suggestibility as it seems that they are not really judging the software developer, rather just casting their own opinion. As the Fun Sorter with a construct of Fun is measuring the same construct as the Smileyometer and the Again – Again table, it perhaps makes sense to save its use for other constructs such as ‘ease of use’ or ‘easiest to learn’. The studies reported here suggest that children that are quite young can understand different