Open AccessFEEDBACK AS AN INCENTIVE FOR RESPONDING TO A MAIL QUESTIONNAIRE
Author(s) -
Powers Donald E.,
Alderman Donald L.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
ets research report series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.235
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 2330-8516
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.1981.tb01240.x
Subject(s) - incentive , psychology , non response bias , questionnaire , statistics , social psychology , medical education , econometrics , mathematics , medicine , economics , microeconomics
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.