Cette recherche vise à construire un cadre théorique correspondant aux différentes formes de tests et de questionnaires dont on a acquis l'expérience (en psychologie appliquée, puis par la pratique des enquêtes sociologiques). Dans une première partie, on présente la polymorphie syntaxique de l'interrogation en français (en l'illustrant d'exemples tirés de tests ou de questionnaires), pour chercher ensuite à réduire les multiples formes de questions à une forme canonique, dont toutes les autres formes sont dérivables par transformations paraphrastiques (on s'inspire principalement des travaux de Chomsky, Tesnière, et Harris). Dans la seconde partie, on décrit les relations sémantiques qui lient questions, réponses, et présuppositions ; on expose ensuite les principaux systèmes de logique érotétique (Belnap, Åqvist, Kubinski), pour aboutir à la description de la syntaxe et de la sémantique formelles des questions et des réponses. La troisième partie porte sur la structure du questionnaire et sa réduction à une forme canonique utilisable pour l'analyse des données recueillies. La conclusion indique les applications possibles, et signale les recherches nécessaires pour qu'il soit possible d'élaborer une théorie générale du questionnaire.

<p>Learning styles have been the subject of educational discussion since 1967. The Dunn and Dunn model has been world leading ever since. The Dunn and Dunn theory states that each individual learns differently and that school can help the students’ results by adapting the teaching to each student’s learning style and perceptual preference. This study focuses on learning styles and especially its connection to reading. When, where and why a student chooses to read is of importance and can affect the reading outcome. To get insight into how students read, this study looks at what type of setting students choose to read in when they do not read in school. It also examines students’ attitudes. The study also discusses how learning style-based learning can help teachers in their work.</p>

<p>Open access to scientific literature on Internet is a concept which is supposed to change librarians' work. The aim of the thesis was to examine librarians' perception of Open access. A questionnaire survey was conducted among librarians at libraries with specialisation in technique, natural sciences, medicine and pharmacy in Sweden. Even though Open access can be regarded as an alarming for librarians' work, the results of the survey showed that the future of the librarians' profession can be positive if they flexibly adopt their work routines according to changes in publication forms and library users' needs.</p>

<p>The general aim of the present thesis is to investigate needs of support and service in clients with long-term mental disabilities living in the community. A further aim is to study changes in these client needs during a 3.5-year follow-up. </p><p>A questionnaire, The Need of Support and Service Questionnaire (NSSQ), was developed to provide staffs in psychiatric care and social services with a brief instrument to assess how their clients live in the community and to identify their needs. </p><p>The results are based on 1,759 clients. The prevalence of clients in urban and rural areas was 6.4/1,000 and 4.5/1,000 inhabitants, respectively. The clients living in the urban setting were more frequently male, older, with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and needed more support in activities of daily living than rural clients. </p><p>Clients identified by staff in psychiatric care only were more often living with a partner, with children living at home and more often had a rehabilitation allowance than clients identified by social services staff. In clients assessed by both organizations similar needs at a group level were identified. However, agreements were lower at the individual level. </p><p>Although clients reported fewer needs than staff in psychiatric care, the reported needs were in the same areas.</p><p>A majority of the clients with unmet needs of service at baseline had their needs met at the 3.5-year follow-up. New unmet needs were also identified at the follow-up, however. The results demonstrate less improvement in clients with schizophrenia as compared with non-schizophrenic clients.</p><p>In conclusion, needs of support and service present a dynamic process and both psychiatric care and social services should critically evaluate assessments of these needs.</p>

<p>This thesis deals with idioms taken from contemporary newspapers. The purpose is to find out which idioms are known and used by native speakers of different ages and also to what extent the entries in the dictionaries offer accurate descriptions to the meaning of these idioms. We already know that idioms which have been modified, as often is the case in newspapers, are often more difficult to understand than others.</p><p>The study has been conducted by means of questionnaires answered by native speakers in Germany. In order to assess the ability that German native speakers have to understand and use these idioms, I have chosen informants from three age groups; the first two groups of informants are grammar school students at a German Gymnasium, in the 7 and the 10 form respectively and the last group consists of adult speakers in Germany with university education. This last group conforms to the final phase of language acquisition.</p><p>The results clearly show that younger generations - and to a certain extent older students and indeed educated adults - are less likely to understand idioms which have complex explanations in the dictionaries and/or whose meanings have been modified. Similarly, all age groups are more likely to understand idioms with simple explanations, those which appear frequently on the Internet and those whose meanings have not been modified, though there is a higher degree of “tolerance” when it comes to complex idioms among the adults.</p><p>It is also clear that the meaning of an idiom cannot always be fully explained out of context. In most cases dictionaries offer an explanation that functions in most contexts, yet it is not uncommon for the meaning of an idiom to be complex and to vary more or less depending on the context. As a way to find out how frequent the idioms are, I have compared their frequency in www.Google.de and found that there is a clear correlation between high frequency in Google and the knowledge displayed by the informants.</p>

The general aim of the present thesis is to investigate needs of support and service in clients with long-term mental disabilities living in the community. A further aim is to study changes in these client needs during a 3.5-year follow-up. A questionnaire, The Need of Support and Service Questionnaire (NSSQ), was developed to provide staffs in psychiatric care and social services with a brief instrument to assess how their clients live in the community and to identify their needs. The results are based on 1,759 clients. The prevalence of clients in urban and rural areas was 6.4/1,000 and 4.5/1,000 inhabitants, respectively. The clients living in the urban setting were more frequently male, older, with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and needed more support in activities of daily living than rural clients. Clients identified by staff in psychiatric care only were more often living with a partner, with children living at home and more often had a rehabilitation allowance than clients identified by social services staff. In clients assessed by both organizations similar needs at a group level were identified. However, agreements were lower at the individual level. Although clients reported fewer needs than staff in psychiatric care, the reported needs were in the same areas. A majority of the clients with unmet needs of service at baseline had their needs met at the 3.5-year follow-up. New unmet needs were also identified at the follow-up, however. The results demonstrate less improvement in clients with schizophrenia as compared with non-schizophrenic clients. In conclusion, needs of support and service present a dynamic process and both psychiatric care and social services should critically evaluate assessments of these needs.

This thesis deals with idioms taken from contemporary newspapers. The purpose is to find out which idioms are known and used by native speakers of different ages and also to what extent the entries in the dictionaries offer accurate descriptions to the meaning of these idioms. We already know that idioms which have been modified, as often is the case in newspapers, are often more difficult to understand than others. The study has been conducted by means of questionnaires answered by native speakers in Germany. In order to assess the ability that German native speakers have to understand and use these idioms, I have chosen informants from three age groups; the first two groups of informants are grammar school students at a German Gymnasium, in the 7 and the 10 form respectively and the last group consists of adult speakers in Germany with university education. This last group conforms to the final phase of language acquisition. The results clearly show that younger generations - and to a certain extent older students and indeed educated adults - are less likely to understand idioms which have complex explanations in the dictionaries and/or whose meanings have been modified. Similarly, all age groups are more likely to understand idioms with simple explanations, those which appear frequently on the Internet and those whose meanings have not been modified, though there is a higher degree of “tolerance” when it comes to complex idioms among the adults. It is also clear that the meaning of an idiom cannot always be fully explained out of context. In most cases dictionaries offer an explanation that functions in most contexts, yet it is not uncommon for the meaning of an idiom to be complex and to vary more or less depending on the context. As a way to find out how frequent the idioms are, I have compared their frequency in www.Google.de and found that there is a clear correlation between high frequency in Google and the knowledge displayed by the informants.

Learning styles have been the subject of educational discussion since 1967. The Dunn and Dunn model has been world leading ever since. The Dunn and Dunn theory states that each individual learns differently and that school can help the students’ results by adapting the teaching to each student’s learning style and perceptual preference. This study focuses on learning styles and especially its connection to reading. When, where and why a student chooses to read is of importance and can affect the reading outcome. To get insight into how students read, this study looks at what type of setting students choose to read in when they do not read in school. It also examines students’ attitudes. The study also discusses how learning style-based learning can help teachers in their work.

Localized prostate cancer (LPC) is predominantly a tumor among older men, and few patients will get symptoms from the disease. All methods to treat LPC with a curative intent have different types and degrees of side effects. It is therefore very important to evaluate the side effects thoroughly to make sure that treatment complications will not decrease the quality of life more than the disease would have done. In search for new and better treatments, complications has to be registered and evaluated in relation to quality of life (QOL) for the patients. Few validated self-assessment questionnaires for evaluation of external radiotherapy (EBRT) induced side effects has yet been developed. The present project focus on the development of the PC-specific questionnaire, QUFW94, and evaluation of symptoms in patients treated with EBRT and un-treated (watchful waiting) patients with a LPC. In the newly developed LPC-specific questionnaire a reliability and responsiveness test was performed. Both the inter-rater test and the test-retest show high correlation coefficients (ICC), above 0.60 for all scales. The internal reliability exceeded the lower acceptable limit (Cronbach a &gt;0.70). The questionnaire was proven to be valid for the evaluations of EBRT side effects in LPC patients. Late side effects were evaluated 4 years after treatment in 181 LPC patients, treated with conventional large field EBRT, and compared with 141 age-matched PC disease free men. The most prominent urinary side effects were urgency and leakage which were doubled in the patient group. A ten fold increase was seen in comparison to controls at the most prominent intestinal problems, blood, mucus and leakage. The results support the use 3-D conformai therapy to decrease irradiation dose to the rectum and the bladder and thereby decreased side effects. A prospective additional evaluation 8 years after EBRT did not show any changes in urinary problems between 4 and 8-yr follow-up in the patients or the controls. EBRT of LPC is also accompanied by disturbances in sexual function. These problems were therefore evaluated, 4 years after EBRT, in relation to the function in PC free men. Patients treated with EBRT indicated higher levels of sexual dysfunction than age-matched controls. No erection was reported from 12% of the control subjects, 56% of the patients who had only received radiotherapy (RT) and 87% of the RT+castration (RT+A) patients. The extended evaluation 8 years after EBRT show similar sexual function in all groups. QOL and late side effects/symptoms were evaluated in the first and only randomized trial between RT and deferred treatment (DT) and compared to age-matched controls. QOL was evaluated with the general QOL formula, EORTC's QLQ-C30 (+3), and LPC specific side effects with QUFW94 in 108 randomized patients with LPC 3 years after diagnosis. Social functioning was the only QOL scale where a significant difference was found between the two patient groups and in comparison with the control group. Multivariate regression analysis showed that hematuria, incontinence, mucus, and planning of the daily activities due to intestinal problems caused this decrease in QOL in the RT group. In conclusion, the LPC specific QUFW94 questionnaire was proven to be valid for evaluation of side effects and showed increased intestinal problems in the patients treated with conventional large field EBRT in comparison to untreated LPC patients. No difference in urinary and intestinal late side effects or sexual function was seen between a 4 year vs. 8 year follow-up. / digitalisering@umu

El método de encuesta es un método de investigación de naturaleza lingüística y buena parte de las líneas de investigación elaboradas acerca de este método parecen haber obviado en buena medida esta característica. La relegación de la naturaleza lingüística del método de encuesta ha comportado un importante nivel de reificación de los elementos que se consideran implicados en él. Nos referimos fundamentalmente a las preguntas, a los entrevistadores y entrevistadoras, a las respuestas, a las personas encuestadas y a los propios instrumentos de las técnicas de investigación. Esta reificación ha transformado dichos elementos, en elementos objetivables y manipulables, y en cierta forma, desnudos de su principal característica: su significado y dimensión lingüística.Las repercusiones de este enfoque del método de encuesta han sido varias, entre ellas podemos destacar, por ejemplo, la reducción de lo lingüístico en los cuestionarios a meros enunciados casi métricos de preguntas, y la reducción de las respuestas a tan sólo marcas en diversas casillas. Este enfoque también ha propiciado que la figura del/de la entrevistador/a se convierta, por definición, en una fuente de sesgo, principalmente por sus características sociodemográficas, negándole una participación lingüística de interacción social en el método de encuesta. Igualmente, bajo esta perspectiva, la forma conversacional de la entrevista ha relegado a los cuestionarios a un mero intercambio de interrogaciones y monosílabos, o a un simple intercambio de papeles, olvidando precisamente que ni la entrevista es una conversación, ni los cuestionarios son elementos neutros en relación a la interacción lingüística de las personas implicadas en una situación de encuesta.Las hipótesis formuladas proponen en líneas generales, la recuperación de la naturaleza lingüística del método de encuesta, no tanto porque este método funcione a través de la palabra oral o escrita, como porque el lenguaje comporta una elaboración de significados compartidos en función de los mucho elementos que lo dimensionalizan. Entre estos elementos hemos destacado, en relación al método de encuesta, la propia situación de interacción condicionada por la técnica de investigación que se utilice (cuestionario autoadministrado, cuestionario entrevistado, entrevista), la persona encuestada, el/la interlocutor/a con el que la persona entra en contacto y con el que desarrol1ará la encuesta y el objeto sobre el cual va a ser preguntada la persona encuestada. En definitiva se trata de recuperar la importancia del contexto comunicativo y del "otro" simbólico en el proceso de obtención de información a través del método de encuesta. De forma más concreta las hipótesis tratan de poner de manifiesto la incidencia del objeto de interlocución, no tanto sobre los contenidos, sino sobre los procesos implicados en la interlocución. Igualmente las hipótesis sugieren que el modo de administración tiene efectos sobre los contenidos de respuesta, ya que los modos de administración son, en realidad, elementos contextuales de interlocución. Finalmente, las hipótesis tratan de otro elemento, el entrevistador o la entrevistadora sugiriendo que las interacciones de género, con sus puestas en juego de estereotipos, representaciones y prácticas tienen incidencia sobre los contenidos discursivos en función del contexto de interlocución y de la relevancia del tema. En este trabajo se han desarrollado dos investigaciones. En la primera investigación hemos tratado del tema del cuerpo y en la segunda de la educación. Se eligió el tema del cuerpo porque las hipótesis proponen la relevancia del contenido de interlocución en relación a la interacción comunicativa entre géneros, y consideramos que es una temática relativamente amenazante, ya que en la representación de lo público y lo privado pertenece más al dominio de lo privado que de lo público. La segunda investigación aborda el tema de la educación en contraste con la primera, es decir, su discurso pertenece al orden de lo público, de lo no amenazante y su interlocución está menos condicionada por las interacciones de género. Los resultados de las investigaciones nos permiten afirmar que la forma de administración no sólo es un medio de interrogación sino un contexto de interlocución, y que si bien el sexo como variable independiente tiene pocos efectos, el género está relacionado con los contenidos discursivos que se evidencian en la interlocución si existe una vinculación entre tema y contexto de género / In general lines, the investigations elaborated about enquiry method appear have obviate in a good measure the nature of this method, and this nature, more than metric -bow you can deduce through the psychometry and the sociometry- it is linguistics. The exile of this linguistics nature about enquiry method has beared a reification of the questions and the interviewers and have transformed them in objectivables elements despoid of its principal characteristic: its meaning and linguistic dimension. The repercussions of this focussing of enquiry method have been diverse, and we can detach, for example, the reduction of the linguistic in the questionnaires in simple enunciations almost metrics of questions, and the reduction of the answers in only marks in different options. This focussing has propitiate too that the figure of the interviewers is converted for definition in a potential source of error, refusing its linguistic participation in the social interaction in enquiry method. Equally the conversational form of interview has relegated the questionnaires in a simple interchange of interrogations and monosyllabic, or in a simple interchange of papers, forgetting precisely that the interview isn't a conversation, and the questionnaires aren't neutral elements to the linguistic and social interaction of the people implicated in a enquiry situation. The hypothesis formulated in this work propose, fundamentally, the recuperation of the linguistic nature of enquiry method because we thing that the language bears elaboration of share significations in function of very elements that give them dimension. Between this elements we have detached the situation of interaction, that has been conditioned for the techniques of investigations that it is used - auto administrate questionnaire, interviewed questionnaire and interview-, the inquire person, the interlocutor that talk with the interviewed person and the degree of relevance of the object or the theme about we will make questions to the interviewed person. We have to recuperate the importance of communicative context and "the other" symbolical in the process of getting information through the enquiry method.