Pilot test and Pre-testing

[Dr.Rajkumar M]

Dear Scholars, 

     In the thesis, under the Research Methodology chapter, we find a heading termed as "Pilot Study"- This is done during the questionnaire development stage. Apart from "Pilot testing" there is one more important terminology termed as "Pre-test" which you will come across only in a few theses works.

So

1) What is the difference between Pilot testing and Pre-test? 

2) How to do a Pilot test and Pre-test?

3) When to do it and what are its limitations?

In order to give an initial insight, I am sending a youtube link with this mail which will be useful for you. You can go through more content on the same and you can use it in your research work.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd-INf0bOsI

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With Regards

Dr. M. Rajkumar

Assistant Professor,

Faculty of Management Studies,

ICFAI University Jharkhand

[rishi nandan]

Thanks sir

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[MANISHA BHARTI]

Thank you so much sir :)

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[RITU GHOSH]

Interesting to know the difference between PS and PT, and items are assessed under each? Is it recommended to use both Pilot study and pretesting for in the survey research? Thoughts and comments. 

Regards

Ritu

[arnab.c20]

That's a interesting question. From a bit digging on the Net I report the following:

Pretest is undertaken before putting the survey instrument to actual use. Pilot test is a full scale survey on a small sample. Pretest precedes the pilot.

Pretest is concerned with the robustness of the instrument design. It also provides future researchers a documented resource on errors and inconsistencies in the survey designs undertaken in the past.

Pilot test on the other hand is a full scale survey from start to finish, albeit on a limited sample.  The purpose is to identify methodological weaknesses, e.g., sampling strategies, data collection etc. Pilot test also help check whether the data conform to ‘obvious’ patterns (e.g., more women being subjected to domestic violence than men). Though, non-obvious pattern by itself is not a problem it does give the researcher reasons to review her methods and data.

The following resources are useful:

Appendix 13b of Donald Cooper's book on business research available at his online learning center (attached)

A chapter of a book published by Sage (distribution not permitted) - search keywords "68507_book_item_68507.pdf"  on Google.

Regards

Arnab

[RITU GHOSH]

Arnab Ji, Thank you so much for the response and sharing resources.  A chapter of a book published by Sage (distribution not permitted) - search keywords "68507_book_item_68507.pdf"  on Google is really helpful. 

Regards

Ritu

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