Expert review of an English-language questionnaire before pilot testing. Within two working days, receive a signed report from Dr. Milos Kankaras identifying wording and content concerns, with suggested revisions and a provenance check. The second option adds translation-risk notes for up to three target languages. This is a review of the draft, not a prediction of item statistics or evidence of cross-language equivalence.
The pre-screen reads a draft before the pilot. The audit diagnoses an instrument you already run. The development builds the one you do not have. Start wherever you are.
What you send
- The draft questionnaire in English, as docx, xlsx or csv. Item text is enough; construct labels, keying and the response format sharpen the read.
- Who it is for: the population and the setting.
- The target languages, if the instrument will be translated, up to three. Questionnaires written in Montenegrin or another language of the region are served from psihologija.me.
What comes back within 48 hours
Each questionnaire receives an AI first read, followed by a named expert’s review. Milos Kankaras reads every item himself, and the report is his.
- One row per item to revise or cut: the critique and a suggested rewrite that keeps the construct and the keying direction.
- A provenance check: items that resemble a published instrument, with the instrument’s name, licence class and citation. No catalogued item is quoted.
- Format notes on wording: length, reading level, negations, absolutes. Notes, not verdicts.
- With target languages: a translation-risk table per language, written for the translator. Idioms, locale-bound referents, comparison groups, gender agreement, address form, terms that need one settled rendering.
- A signed report with a plain-words limitations page, so whoever reads it after you knows what it can and cannot carry.
The sample is a real pre-screen of a 75-item English work-behaviour questionnaire with three target languages, with item ids and scale codes relabelled: open the sample report (PDF, 8 pages). A client receives the same document on their own questionnaire.
Two options, one questionnaire
Pre-screen, one language
Up to 40 items in English. Every item read, the revise-and-cut rows with rewrites, the provenance check, the format notes, the signed report.
290 EUR, 48 hours from receipt on working days.
Pre-screen, up to three target languages
The one-language pre-screen plus a translation-risk table for each language you name, written before translation starts.
490 EUR, 48 hours from receipt on working days.
Prices exclude VAT; Montenegrin VAT of 21 percent is added where it applies. Longer questionnaires and more languages are quoted on request.
What a pre-screen does not do
- It does not predict item statistics.
- It does not simulate respondents and does not predict a response distribution.
- It does not replace a pilot, cognitive interviews or a psychometric analysis of real responses.
- The provenance check names instruments by name, licence class and citation. It is not a legal opinion.
- The translation-risk notes are prompts for the translator, not a translation and not a guarantee of equivalence.
- It does not review a manuscript. For a methods referee report on a paper before you submit it, see the Pre-Submission Methods Review.
Order a pre-screen
Paste the items below, or write that the file follows by email. We confirm receipt and the price by return; the 48 hours run from receipt of the file, on working days.
Prefer to attach the file, or the form gives you trouble? Send it to milos@centerforpsychology.me.