Data Collection

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Open Ended

What do the pictures have in common?

Multiple Choice

Which of these questions is open-ended?

• Is Tuesday a convenient day for garbage collection?

• Do you think the garbage collection schedule is adequate?

• What is the garbage collection schedule like in your town?

• Has garbage always been collected on Tuesdays and Thursdays?

Match

Match the following types of survey questions

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  Open-ended questions

• Dichotomous Questions

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  Multiple-response questions

• Matrix questions

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  Contingency questions

Scales the respondent’s agreement/disagreement or approval/disapproval on a scale.

Does not have predetermined options nor answers.

Has only two options such as true or false, yes or no, agree or disagree.

Provides more than one answer from the respondent.

When a follow up question is given based on the answer of the respondent on a question.

• Scales the respondent’s agreement/disagreement or approval/disapproval on a scale.

• Does not have predetermined options nor answers.

• Has only two options such as true or false, yes or no, agree or disagree.

• Provides more than one answer from the respondent.

• When a follow up question is given based on the answer of the respondent on a question.

Open Ended

What are the four types of interviews?

Multiple Choice

The interviewer in an unstructured interview follows the pattern of the set questions while maintaining the formal manner of asking the questions. 

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

• This type of interview is most appropriate when investigating for the respondent must be given the freedom to speak for as long as necessary on a wide subject that may unintentionally expose personal goals, emotions, attitudes, etc.

• Structured interviews

• Unstructured interviews

• Non-Directive Interviews

• Focus Interviews

Multiple Choice

​ Non-Participant Observer studies participants, who are aware of their role as a researcher, but does not actively participate in the activity.

• True

• False

Match

​ ​ ​ Match the following

• The observer selects the behaviors (events) he is interested in in advance and logs each instance. All other forms of conduct are disregarded.

• The observer chooses in advance the precise time the observation will occur, and they only keep track of the behavior's occurrence within that time.

• The observer chooses in advance the times when observation will take place and logs what occurs at those times. Ignore the happenings before or after.

Event sampling

Time sampling

Instantaneous (target time) sampling

• Event sampling

• Time sampling

• Instantaneous (target time) sampling

Open Ended

Questions?