Pretesting Methods in Cross-Cultural Research

Abstract

IndexOne year is an ambitious timeline to publish any book. Thanks to the power of collaboration among our 28 contributors, we were propelled to complete this book project within that time frame.We would like to acknowledge the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) for providing a platform in the form of an annual conference where we cultivate ideas, foster collaborations, and champion each other's efforts. The AAPOR conference short course by Daphna Oyserman and Norbert Schwarz ignited our passion for writing this book to share with a broad audience survey research theories, practices, and outlook in cross-cultural contexts. The incredible support from the leadership at RTI International's Social, Statistical and Environmental Sciences (SSES) Group made the publishing idea viable.We owe RTI Press a deep debt of gratitude for the thoughtful and rigorous editing, guidance, and trust during the past year and for making the book open access. We thank Editor-in-Chief Jenny Wiley, Senior Manager Anna Wetterberg, and Publishing Editor Annie Gering. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their review of the manuscript. We also thank Senior Editors Sharon Barrell, Merrie Aiken, and Marceline Murawski at RTI's Multimedia Communication Services. Melinda Welch facilitated many aspects of the process and we appreciate her help. We acknowledge Lisa Thalji, Douglas Currivan, Murrey Olmsted, Marjorie Hinsdale-Shouse, Rachel Caspar, and Craig Hill.Last but not least, we are grateful of the Foreword penned by Daphna and Norbert and the Afterword by Comparative Survey Design and Implementation consortium's Julie de Jong, Kristin Cibelli Hibben, Jennifer Kelley, and Dorothée Behr. Our special thanks go to Peter Mohler for his helpful review comments. It is the vision and role-modeling from these pioneers and many others that gave, and continue to give, many of us the courage to create our own path.

Are sexual health survey items understood as intended by African and Asian migrants to Australia? Methods, results and recommendations for qualitative pretesting

“…As Aizpurua has observed, 'despite the increased use of pretesting methods in [multinational, multiregional, and multicultural] surveys, there remains no consensus regarding best practices for their design and implementation.' 19 We offer the following lessons for each stage of the pretesting process: Design 1. The current literature provides little guidance as to the optimal sample size for pretesting.…”

“…The single most important step that the research community can take to improve the quality of migrant health survey data generally, and SHBBV data in particular, is to conduct and publish more pretesting studies. 19 The more data are available, the more we can learn about ways of improving pretesting methods and survey drafting practices. However, this recommendation cannot be realised until structural barriers are addressed.…”

The ECOSOPHY concept in discourses of language education: a cross-cultural perspective

“…The material for analysis was the results of a psycholinguistic experiment in the format of questionnaires (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpLScQxMMKR4QepTy4NviS7sJerUDrSmvqYkOhtbJsmu JvxC6snQ/viewform). It is designed in a pretest-survey format (Aizpurúa, 2020;Chen, 2016) to follow basic best practice recommendations for general survey research, to examine universal (as our research priority at the present stage) verbally represented conceptual facets of the concept ECOSOPHY, actualized in discourses of linguodidactics cross-culturally (Mingnan, Mengyao, 2016, pp. 151-156).…”

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“…The material for analysis was the results of a psycholinguistic experiment in the format of questionnaires (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpLScQxMMKR4QepTy4NviS7sJerUDrSmvqYkOhtbJsmu JvxC6snQ/viewform). It is designed in a pretest-survey format (Aizpurúa, 2020;Chen, 2016) to follow basic best practice recommendations for general survey research, to examine universal (as our research priority at the present stage) verbally represented conceptual facets of the concept ECOSOPHY, actualized in discourses of linguodidactics cross-culturally (Mingnan, Mengyao, 2016, pp. 151-156).…”