IQ Questionnaire Prt 1

The following survey is PART ONE of the FOURTH in a series four of short surveys and questionnaires, aimed at understanding how users search for information on the World-wide Web, and how they feel about both their search methods and the resulting information they find. NOTE: It is essential that you complete the first two TAM Surveys and the ISB questionnaire before you attempt this Perceptions of information quality (IQ) questionnaire.

	TAM Survey: Information Retrieval & the World-wide Web
	TAM Survey: Information Quality & the World-wide Web
	Information seeking behaviour (ISB) questionnaire

If you have completed all three of the above surveys, you are ready to begin. The questionnaire is divided into two parts. Part 1 (questions 1 to 12), and Part 2 (questions 13 to 45).

Perceptions of Information Quality Questionnaire (Prt 1)

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Perceptions of quality and information publication formats

The following questions relate to your personal views regarding the publication format of specific information
1.	Which publication format is more likely to contain the highest quality information?

		Book
		Web Page
		Research Journal
		Industry Magazine
		Newspaper (hard-copy)

2.	Which publication format is more likely to contain the lowest quality information?

		Book
		Web Page
		Research Journal
		Industry Magazine
		Newspaper (hard-copy)

3.	Which publication format is more likely to be the most up-to-date?

		Newspaper (hard-copy)
		Online Newspaper
		Research Journal
		Industry Magazine

4.	In your view as a researcher, which type of publication carries greater value in a references list of a
	research paper?

		Research Journal
		Research Conference
		Industry Conference
		Web Page

Perceptions of quality and WWW protocols & characteristics

The following questions relate to your personal views regarding World-wide Web protocols & characteristics
5.	Which URL address is more likely to contain *non-biased* information?

	www.URLname.org
	www.URLname.com
	www.URLname.edu
	www.URLname.gov

6.	Which URL address is more likely to contain *biased* information?

	www.URLname.org
	www.URLname.com
	www.URLname.edu
	www.URLname.gov

7.	In your current Web information retrieval, how often have you considered the issues addressed
	in questions 5 & 6?

	Always
	Regularly
	Occasionally
	I have never considered this before

8.	How important is knowing the authorship of the information on a webpage to your perception
	of it's reliability?

	Not important
	Marginally important
	Relatively/fairly important
	Very important
	Essential

9.	How often do you look for details of a Webpage's authorship

	Never
	Occasionally
	Often
	Always

10.	If a webpage has broken links, (hyper-links that when clicked onto, lead to a 404 error)

	.....do you most often assume:

	The Webpage developer put the wrong URL into the link (made an error)
	The Webpage is out-of-date
	The target Webpage's (where the link is going) server is down

11.	If a webpage has broken links, do you assume the rest of the Webpage will be filled with
	inaccurate information

	YES; I consider the page will probably have other errors
	No, I accept that out-of-date links are part and parcel of the dynamic (always changing)
	nature of the World-wide Web.

12.	*Biased information* can be published on the World-wide Web without any checks and balances. Which
	of the following statements best describes your own attitude towards addressing biased information

	I believe no information is free from bias and read what I retrieve from the Web accordingly
	Biased information is fine, provided it is aware of its bias
	Biased information provides an important source of opposing points of view
	I am generally unaware of the bias in the information I retrieve from the WWW

	You are now ready to submit the first part of the Information Quality Perceptions questionnaire. » Please check that you have answered all the questions marked with a » If you have completed Prt 1 of the IQ questionnaire, click on the "Submit" button below. This will submit your answers for Prt 1, and will automatically open Prt 2 of the IQ questionnaire.