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Research Methods in Information Science/The research survey
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Surveys are generalizable and replicable.
Instrumentation
Knight, G. P., Tein, J. Y., Shell, R., & Roosa, M. (1992). The cross‐ethnic equivalence of parenting and family interaction measures among Hispanic and Anglo‐American families. Child Development, 63(6), 1392-1403.
Limitations
Surveys can be obtrusive. Survey respondents can be self-selecting.
Examples
Ash, J. S. (1999). Factors affecting the diffusion of online end user literature searching. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 87(1), 58–66.