Notes / Takeaways on ‘The Tools at Hand‘

After reading this article, I wonder if choosing ‘questionnaire’ as one of my research methods is appropriate to my research project. Although the article focuses on the pretesting as an integral part of the design phase of the questionnaire, there are assumptions that the final questionnaire is created for a large scale amount of participants. I’m basing this on the paragraph that recommends pre-testing parts of the questionnaire on some of the participants. For my particular project, I will probably have 10 participants altogether, and when working with such a small number, pretesting on parts of the group doesn’t seem sensible. I also wouldn’t want to skip the part of pretesting as it seems, like it’s part of a thorough research. A possible but not ideal solution could be to find other recent questionnaires that examined a similar field and model the questions after them. The problems using this method would be a: the ‘handcrafted’ aspect would go missing; b: I wouldn’t know how and to which extent the questions of the given questionnaire would be pretested. 
Suggestion that came up after tutorial: you might want develop your own tool, such as a very long sheet of paper, or a micro page and call it ‘weaving’ or ‘collage’

The Tools at Hand, In: Survey Questions 
By:
Jean M. Converse & Stanley Presser 
Pub. Date: 2011 
Access Date: September 16, 2021 
Publishing Company: SAGE Publications, Inc. 
City: Thousand Oaks 
Print ISBN: 9780803927438 
Online ISBN: 9781412986045 
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412986045 
Print pages: 48-75