The second video in Pew Research Center’s Methods 101 series helps explain question wording – a concept at the center of sound public opinion survey research – and why it’s important. Writing clear ...

Research methods are a compulsory component of many undergraduate programmes. But it is challenging to design good questions for assessing students’ understanding of research methods in closed book ...

This study included six open-ended questions: Researchers manually coded each of the 375,834 open-ended answers into one of four categories: responsive to the question; does not match the question; ...

Those of you who lament the state of high school students’ research and writing skills will be interested in a discussion that’s been unfolding at the National Association of Scholars. It began a ...