You need to conduct a survey in three months among employees completing their probationary period to determine how company orientation and training could be improved.You have several closed questions prepared for the survey,but you don't know if the choices provided are adequate.You should:
A) conduct a pretest with open questions to find commonly chosen categories.
B) conduct a pretest to see if the terms used mean different things to different people.
C) conduct the survey as it is and leave an "other" line for each question.
D) conduct the survey with open questions, even though it will take respondents twice as long to fill the survey out.
E) conduct a pretest with closed questions to find categories that matter to respondents.

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Closed questions are faster for subjects to answer and easier for researchers to score. However, since all answers must fit into pre-chosen categories, they cannot probe the complexities of a subject. You can improve the quality of closed questions by conducting a pretest with open questions to find categories that matter to respondents. Analyzing the responses from open questions is usually less straightforward than analyzing responses from closed questions.

You Need to Conduct a Survey in Three Months Among