Interesting...

Carry on Dear. .

First, try to identify experts beyond yourself to review and offer advice. You could also compare to other surveys within the same subject matter.

Pilot the test with yourself (see Chenail, R. J. (2011). Interviewing the investigator: Strategies for addressing instrumentation and researcher bias concerns in qualitative research. The Qualitative Report, 16, 255–262. and Article Conducting the Pilot Study: A Neglected Part of the Research...

Next, pilot the test with three to five classmates/professors. Interview and ask for feedback and annotations. Will the structure and scales provide the information and discrimination you want?

If you are doing a large-scale administration and have time, select a larger sample to run it. Check the survey is logical, clear, and offers what you want to know. Sometimes we neither have the time nor resources to move beyond asking experts, piloting with oneself, and small-scale administration, especially when conducting a dissertation. Much depends on how or if you establish validity, reliability, and structure.

Still, I'd be happy to review it. You might cold text others on ResearchGate and LinkedIn.

Dear Akilah Murphy-Sharp is your research involving PhD students? If not, why not ask your supervisors to give you feedback on the questions and run a pilot study to identify the quality of the questions and answers. If you do need the help of PhD students, are there people in your own institution who might help? Many universities have student email lists or you could ask each head of research across the university departments. In any event, I hope you obtain the information and help you need.

Very best wishes, James.

For a small pilot study, you could use cognitive interviewing (Willis, 2005).

I am available to review and suggest you as best as possible.

So the way that I'm reading this question is that you want to try and find a fellow community so that you get a bit of support from people in a similar situation to yourself? I think that's a really good thing for PhD students to do. Normally it is achieved via presenting at conferences -you end up meeting like-minded academics interested in the same area as yourself. This then builds up a support network where 'do you mind having a look at this for me and telling me what you think' becomes a nice way of building each other up. But with COVID, I can imaging that this hasn't occurred for many.

ResearchGate isn't a great place to meet good quality academics -there's a lot of random people on here. And I'm not a psy person, so I don't know any professional groups in your area (in sociology there are a few online groups).

So, I'd suggest emailing the professional orgs which are in your field and seeing if they are running any events for PhDs.

Now, if your project is on 'toxic leadership in academia' and you are looking to pilot your survey tool with PhD students, I'm guessing you want American, subject-specific ones (as a start). A poster on campus normally gets quite a few hits -esp if you have ethical approval for giving small 'thank you's. Or a post on Twitter will normally get a few responses etc.

Others have mentioned reaching out to your PhD supervisors. There are lots of reasons why you might not be able to do this (it might not be their area etc). But they should give you guidance on how to pilot your tool (who, how many, cognitive interviewing or another method etc). I'm flagging this as it really depends on the type of questions and the data you need -are you using validated questions etc, or is this more a 'scoping' method with open-ended questions etc. At the end of the day, you need to be clear about what the people who are guiding you expect. I suspect slightly that your project does not focus on PhD students -and so if they suggested using PhD students it was because they are seen as 'safe' for this type of informal testing. This might indicate that your supervisors have flagged that maybe the wording of your questions needed work etc. If so, then actually anyone who is willing to actually what they think, will be a help to you (family, friends). However, if your supervisors have told you to go out and see if more questions are needed, then they haven't meant that other PhD students will be able to tell you this (they won't know and are not experts in the area). Only if your research is on PhD students and leadership, could you ask them 'Is there things that I haven't asked about, that you feel is important to include', but then you'd be better off doing interviews to produce the questions for the survey).

I'm sorry that I don't have a clear answer to the connection resource. It sounds as if you need a mixture of community support and more clarity from a supervisor. (unless this is straightforward -how do I get PhD students to take part in my research, in which case it depends on your ethics approval but prob posters on campus, twitter ( #phd #academicchatter etc), facebook pages connected to your uni etc), turning up to their events etc.

Good luck!

I believe there are two steps for reviewing PhD survey questions and have feedback; the first step is concerned with asking the advice of specialized scholars and professional experts in the field you write your dissertation. The second step is to make a pilot study for the questions involved.

Akilah Murphy-Sharp you already have quality advice on your query by respected David L Morgan and Mahfuz Judeh . To summarise, I would say 1) relevant credible literature sources can provide you best reliable survey questionnaires, 2) Expert researchers in your area of research can validate the content through Expert Opinion, and 3) a small set (5 to 30) of Cognitive Interviews from your potential population of interest can provide you the initial feel about the understanding of the survey items by your potential respondents. Normally, PHD students are not accepted the authority for Expert Opinion on the content of a PHD student's study survey. Tq.

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