Step #2: Where Is
The Evidence?
Surveys
Have you ever watched the TV show Family Feud? The contestants are
two families. This game show uses surveys. Surveys are questionnaires.
Prior Family Feud audiences answer surveys. Survey questions might involve
sports, music, history or just about any topic. Each family tries to guess
the most popular answers given by the audience of about 100 people.
Surveys can also be used in PPA. There are two types of survey
questions: factual and attitudinal(feelings). Suppose many students in
your school have poor grades. You decide to study this social problem. You
could survey students, teachers and administrators about the problem.
Surveys can be used at several steps in PPA.
Here are some examples of factual survey questions. They deal with the
problem of poor grades. The examples are at various PPA steps:
Survey
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