Your pre-fieldwork survey QA checklist.
A working survey needs more than a successful completion. Use your approved questionnaire, a test link, and test response records to check what people see, where they go, and what gets stored.
ONE CHECK, THREE PIECES OF EVIDENCE
“Never” should end the survey.
- Expected
- S1 = Never → Screen out.
- Observed
- Selecting Never continues to Q2.
- Record
- Save the answer path, failed destination, and screenshot so the programmer can reproduce it.
From instructions to a checked survey.
- 01
Compare every respondent-facing detail.
Match prompts, instructions, answer labels, recall periods, scale order, and piped text to the questionnaire. Check exclusive options, required answers, and validation messages.
See wording and experience checks - 02
Exercise the logic.
Follow both sides of skip and display conditions. Include screen-outs, carry-forward lists, and combinations near rule boundaries. Record the answers and destination for each failed check.
Explore path testing - 03
Inspect the response records.
Match each simulated session to its record. Compare answer codes, recodes, hidden questions, and missing values with the expected questionnaire rules. In Questra, this requires a supported platform connection.
Verify codes and hidden questions - 04
Fix, then test again.
Keep the finding, expected behavior, and evidence together. Re-run affected paths after a change and check related questions for regressions. Review incomplete checks as well as failures.
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