Research Methods in Information Science/The research survey
Surveys are generalizable and replicable.
Instrumentation
[edit | edit source]Knight, G. P., Tein, J. Y., Shell, R., & Roosa, M. (1992). The cross‐ethnic equivalence of parenting and family interaction measures among Hispanic and Anglo‐American families. Child Development, 63(6), 1392-1403.
Limitations
[edit | edit source]Surveys can be obtrusive. Survey respondents can be self-selecting.
Examples
[edit | edit source]- Ash, J. S. (1999). Factors affecting the diffusion of online end user literature searching. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 87(1), 58–66.