PR1 - Data Collection

Direct data include recordable spoken or written words and also observable body language, actions, and interactions.

Which of the following is an example of a direct data?

• Laboratory data

• Photographs

• Paintings

• Songs

What is the prime method for qualitative data collection?

What data are generated, firsthand, by someone or something else, such as with documents or photographs reporting an event or an artistic rendition of an event or experience?

• Direct data

• Indirect data

• Laboratory data

• Processed data

Which of the following are classifications of interviews in qualitative research?

Choose more than one.

• Unstructured interviews

• Semi-structured interviews

• Structured interviews

• Ambush interviews

Which of the following interviews is designed to be informal and conversational with the aim of encouraging participants to express themselves in a naturally unfolding manner?

• Unstructured interviews

• Semi-structured interviews

• Structured interviews

Qualitative interviews should allow the interviewee to speak freely and offer in-depth and lengthy responses through techniques used singularly or in combination.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which of the following are techniques in qualitative interviews?

Choose all the answers.

• Funneling

• Probing

• Mimicking

• Paraphrasing

• Retelling

What technique in qualitative interview begins the interview with general and broad opening questions and then narrowing down to topic specifics as the interview progresses?

• Funneling

• Probing

• Paraphrasing

What technique in qualitative interview repeats what the participant has said, without changing the meaning of what has been said?

• Probing

• Funneling

• Paraphrasing

_____ groups are interviews conducted in a group setting and can be used in a number of ways to generate data.