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Introduction  |  Review & Identify  |  Criterion A  |  Criterion B  |  Criterion C

Step 3: Justify conducting a questionnaire for each group.

Criterion B. You must have a clear idea of what variables you want to gather data about, and you need to be reasonably sure you will get those data by posing standardized questions.

Issue Scenario Example Conclusion
Do you have a clear idea of what variables you want to gather data about? Variables such as degree of mentor satisfaction have been defined in previously-conducted interviews. Yes
Are you reasonably sure you will get that data by posing standardized questions? Standardized questions can easily be devised to gain data from them. It also would be a good idea, however, to pose one or two open-ended questions asking the mentors to describe additional events, issues, or outcomes they are not able to mention elsewhere in the questionnaire. Their answers to those questions may contain important information that you could not have anticipated. Yes

Since both questions have been answered affirmatively, Criterion B has been met.