Structured Questionnaires and STEM

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  • Postal Questionnaire
    • Strengths
      • Quick
      • Self Completion - privately done - validity better. Get a better picture of girls in STEM
    • Limitations
      • Costly
      • Low Response Rate
        • Class of who is being asked
          • Access
          • Speech codes
        • Comfortable answering the question even though it is self-completion
          • Feel targeted
          • Right answerism - stereotypes
            • Sue Sharpe - girls in 1970 and 1990.
      • Imposing researchers meanings
        • Hope girls are going into STEM - may enforce 'are you going to join STEM even though it is male dominated?'
      • Scaled Questions
    • Structured Questionnaires - STEM and Girls
      • Digital Questionnaire
        • Strengths
          • Cheap and Quickly quanifiable
          • Validity
            • True/Genuine - Are we getting a genuine view or is it stereotping
          • Reliability
            • Replicable? Need the same questions so yes
        • Limitations
          • Digital access issue - some may not always have access to technology
      • Interpretivists: don't like it - doesn't provide in-depth view - can't understand reasons why or why not someone wants to go into STEM
        • No self-expression

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