Data Collection Technique And Quantitative Data Analysis Flashcards
This is one major component of any type of research.
Collecting data
Using your sense organs, you gather facts or information about people, things, places, events and so on by watching and listening to them
Observation
Data gathering technique that allows you to obtain facts or information abou the subject or object of your research through data gathering instruments of interview and questionnaire.
Survey
This is the paper containing series of questions formulated for an individual and independent answering by several respondents ti obtain statistical information.
Questionnaire
Likewise uses interview as its data gathering instrument. Makes you ask a set of questions, done orally.
Interview
Order of interview questions, opening questions to establish friendly relationships, like question about the place, the tome, the physical appearance of the participant or other nonverbal things that are not for audio recording.
First set of questions
generative questions to encourage open-ended
questions like those that ask about the respondents’ inferences, views, or opinions
about the interview topic.
Second set of questions
directive questions or close-ended questions to elicit
specific answers like those that are answerable with yes or no, with one type of an
object, or with definite period of time, and the like
Third set of questions
ending questions that give the respondents the
chance to air their satisfaction, wants, likes, dislikes, reactions, or comments
about the interview. Included here are also closing statements to give the
respondents some ideas or clues on your next move or activity about the results
of the interview
Fourth set of questions
Guidelines in Formulating Interview Questions, Use clear and simple language. True or False?
True
Guidelines in Formulating Interview Questions,
Use acronyms, abbreviations, jargons, and highfalutin terms.
T or F
False Avoid using acronyms, abbreviations, jargons, and highfalutin terms.
Guidelines in Formulating Interview Questions, Let one question elicit only one answer; there should be no double-barrel
question.
T or F
True
Guidelines in Formulating Interview Questions , Express your point in exact, specific, bias-free, and gender-free language. T or F
True
Guidelines in Formulating Interview Questions, Give way to how your respondents want themselves to be identified. T or F
True
Establish continuity or free flow of the respondents’ thoughts by using appropriate follow up questions. T or F
True
Do not ask in a sequential manner. T or F
False
Scientific method of collecting data, where the subject has treatment or condition.
Experiment
The basic elements of experiment
Subjects, pre-test, treatment and post test
Another quantitative data collection technique that lets you search through several oral or written forms of communication.
Content analysis
samples of texts are collected and
categorized through a certain system or method. What type of content Analysis?
Formal Content Analysis Approach
language structures (words, phrases,
clauses, sentences, and paragraphs) are examined to determine their effects
on the readers. What type of content analysis
Textual Content Analysis Approach
-records or documents are analyzed to
discover the purposes or motives of the communication media in producing
such kind of documents or records. What type of content analysis
Thematic Content Analysis Approach
Communication media records concepts are studied to find out how meaningful, acceptable, or unacceptable the media contents are to the audience.what type of content analysis
Audience Content Analysis Approach
Categorizing people based on gender, religion and position, amongst others
Nominal scale
you can express in terms of percentages, fractions, or decimals like 30% of
males, 25% of females, 10% of Catholics, 405 of Buddhists, and others.
Nominal
ranking or arranging the classified variables to determine who should
be the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. in the group
Ordinal
showing equal differences of people’s views or attitudes,
like the Likert Attitude Scale:
Strongly agree Agree undecided disagree
Interval Scale
rating something from zero to a certain point performance in Math
subject - a grade of 89% (from O to 100%)
Ratio scale