Measuring perception · The instrument · Element
The questions
What is asked, in the exact wording used.
The part
What it is
Open questions before closed ones, so that the closed list does not prime the open answers.
Wording held identical between waves. Small improvements are the most common cause of a broken trend.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.
The other elements in the instrument
The sample
Who is asked, and how they are selected.
LearnThe cadence
How often the instrument is run.
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