Increasing Response Rates to Long Questionnaires

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Abstract
The credibility of survey research is largely a function of response rate. It would be interesting to know how many studies have never reached the completion stage due to insufficient replies. This paper represents a synthesis of the literature and some personally devised techniques for gaining responses to long questionnaires, where the problems of high response rates are particularly critical. Although survey research techniques are an oft- neglected area of educational research, the questionnaire is probably the instrument most commonly used by doctoral students in completing their dissertations and by other educational researchers as supplemental data sources. Therefore how can we insure replies?

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