Feedback as an Incentive for Responding to a Mail Questionnaire
- Author(s):
- Powers, Donald E.; Alderman, Donald L.
- Publication Year:
- 1981
- Report Number:
- RR-81-07
- Source:
- ETS Research Report
- Document Type:
- Report
- Page Count:
- 7
- Subject/Key Words:
- College Bound Students, Feedback, Responses, Surveys
Abstract
The effect of offering respondents feedback on questionnaire results was investigated in a national mail survey of college-bound secondary school students. It was found that offering feedback had a significant positive effect on response rate, but the magnitude of that effect was slightly less than the increase in response rate resulting from a shorter questionnaire and considerably less than a follow-up contact with nonrespondents. (7pp.)
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