Author: Dr. Timo Lenzner

Timo Lenzner is a postdoc at the Survey Design and Methodology Department of GESIS. There he is responsible for conducting cognitive pretests for various survey projects. His research interests focus on questionnaire design and evaluation, web surveys, and usability.

How to Conduct Cognitive Interviews in Times of COVID-19

The outbreak of COVID-19 has created new challenges for face-to-face research activities, including conducting in-person cognitive interviews. The first lockdown in Germany in mid-March 2020 coincided with the preparation phase of a pretest that we planned to conduct face-to-face in our pretest lab in Mannheim. Since we were no longer …