Response Tendency in a Questionnaire without Questions

Recency Tendency: Responses to Forced-Choice Questions

The present study was conducted to investigate whether forced-choice questions would lead to any particular tendency in young children’s responses. Two experiments were conducted in which 3to 5-year-olds children were shown a short animation and then were asked a set of two-option, forced-choice questions. Consistent findings were obtained: (i) Forced-choice questions influenced children’s resp...

Questions on questionnaire development.

Designing and Validating a Search Questionnaire for Searching in Online Information Resources Based on Clinical Questions Among Iranian Medical Students

Objective To be up-to-date, the medical community must have the ability to communicate in the electronic environment and search for information resources. The present study aims to develop a questionnaire to assess the attitudes of Iranian medical students towards searching for information resources by formulating clinical questions and evaluate its validly and reliability. Methods This is a d...

Deep Questions without Deep Understanding

We develop an approach for generating deep (i.e, high-level) comprehension questions from novel text that bypasses the myriad challenges of creating a full semantic representation. We do this by decomposing the task into an ontologycrowd-relevance workflow, consisting of first representing the original text in a low-dimensional ontology, then crowdsourcing candidate question templates aligned w...

WH-questions without WH-words

Such WH-less WH-Questions (let us call them WLWQs) are very often used as questions in written tests or uttered by quizmasters in quizzes, though not often in daily conversations. 2 I assume that, despite their restriction in the range of registers, WLWQs are also constrained by the knowledge of human language. To my knowledge, there has been no previous research on WLWQs in the field. This pap...