AI and How AI Helps You Write Better Survey Questions

End-of-lesson check

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1. Why is it important to check your survey questions for bias before distributing them?

   1. The wording of questions determines what answers you receive, so biased wording will give you inaccurate results
   2. Students are required to check for bias by school district rules
   3. Survey platforms automatically reject biased questions if you don't catch them first
   4. Biased questions take longer to process in data analysis software

2. Which of these question examples represents a leading question?

   1. How often do you exercise per week?
   2. Don't you agree that recycling should be mandatory?
   3. What is your favorite subject in school?
   4. How many hours of sleep do you typically get?

3. What should you do after writing your survey questions but before sending them to a large group?

   1. Delete any questions longer than ten words
   2. Run the survey through an AI bias check
   3. Translate it into three different languages
   4. Publish it immediately since the questions look fine

4. What is a key benefit of including a 'no opinion' option in a survey question?

   1. It makes the survey look more professional with extra choices
   2. It prevents forcing respondents to give false answers when they have no real preference
   3. It automatically removes biased questions from the survey
   4. It increases the number of people who will complete the survey

5. What did the lesson recommend doing with your survey before launching it broadly?

   1. Email it to all teachers first
   2. Post it on social media to gauge interest
   3. Pilot it on 3 friends to test for problems
   4. Submit it to the school newspaper for review

6. Based on the lesson, why is AI particularly useful for improving survey questions?

   1. AI can create the survey questions for you without any input
   2. AI can automatically send the survey to thousands of people
   3. AI can guarantee that your results will be 100% accurate
   4. AI can spot biased and leading wording that a beginner might miss

7. Which phrase, when used at the start of a survey question, always indicates a leading question?

   1. Would you prefer
   2. How often do you
   3. Don't you agree
   4. What is your

8. If you don't offer a 'no opinion' choice on a survey question, what risk do you face?

   1. Respondents will refuse to complete the survey
   2. The survey will be rejected by most platforms
   3. The survey will automatically delete
   4. Respondents may give false answers because they feel forced to choose

9. What should you paste into an AI tool to check for problematic survey wording?

   1. Your research bibliography
   2. Your data results
   3. Your survey questions
   4. Your email addresses

10. What is question wording in the context of survey design?

    1. The font size used in the survey document
    2. The specific words and phrases used to construct survey questions
    3. The order in which questions appear on a page
    4. The number of questions in the survey

11. When the lesson suggests using AI to find leading questions, what is the main goal?

    1. To translate your survey into other languages
    2. To make your survey questions shorter
    3. To improve the quality of your data by removing biased questions
    4. To automatically collect more responses

12. What does the lesson say will happen if you use leading questions in your survey?

    1. The answers you get will be biased and not reflect true opinions
    2. The AI will write new questions for you
    3. People will refuse to answer any questions
    4. Your survey will be automatically deleted

13. Based on the lesson, what makes 'Don't you agree' a problematic way to start a survey question?

    1. It requires advanced reading level
    2. It uses too many words for a survey question
    3. It assumes the respondent already agrees and pressures them to confirm
    4. It is grammatically incorrect

14. Why is pilot testing your survey on a few friends useful, even if you plan to use an AI bias checker?

    1. AI bias checkers only work on surveys longer than 50 questions
    2. Friends will always give you better data than AI can analyze
    3. Pilot testing is required by law for school projects
    4. Friends can find confusing questions or technical issues that AI might miss

15. What is bias in the context of survey questions?

    1. When the survey has too many multiple-choice questions
    2. When respondents lie about their answers
    3. When the sample size is too small
    4. When question wording unfairly influences how people answer