Cognitive interview to pretest survey questionnaires. A dialogue between psychology and methodology of social research
The purpose of this paper is to describe the cognitive interview as a pretest technique for survey questionnaires, assessing its potentials and its limits. The paper begins with a general discussion about pretest as a specific research phase in survey designs, with a focus on the main scopes of making pretest. Then, I described the main approaches to pretest, illustrating some specific pretest techniques for each approach taken into account.