Two types of survey questions are open questions and closed questions. An open question allows for any kind of? response; a closed question allows for only a fixed response. An open question and a closed question with its possible choices are given below. List the advantages and disadvantages of each question. Open? question: What can be done to get students to eat healthier? foods? Closed? question: How would you get students to eat healthier? foods?1. Mandatory nutrition course2. Offer only healthy foods in the cafeteria and remove unhealthy foods3. Offer more healthy foods in the cafeteria and raise the prices on unhealthy foods

Let's start with the open question.

Benefits

The benefits of using an open question is that it allows you to get a wide array of answers. People asked can come up with unique answers that the person who came up with the survey may not have thought of. This allows for more possibilities of finding a good solution.

Disadvantages

The disadvantage of this system is that you may get answers that would not work. For instance, if you wanted to incentivize students to each healthier, an open ended answer might suggest giving a monetary reward for those who eat healthy. This is not feasible in a school, so therefore getting this as an answer is a waste of time.

Now let's tack the close question.

Benefits

The key benefit of the closed question is that is allows you to settle between options that the surveyor has set on. Likely, if there are 3 answers, we know that these are the only ways that we can solve the problem with the resources that we have.

Disadvantages

If you ask a question this way, there is not chance that you'll be given alternative methods to solving the problem. Someone being surveyed may have a great idea on how to solve the problem that is not listed. Using this method will not garner you the response to inform you of this way.