Designing, Conducting and Gathering Information from Surveys Quarter 2 Flashcards
The Various Kinds of Reports
- Survey
2.Laboratory or Scientific Technical Report - Field Report
It is written after getting data from a survey.
- Survey Report
It is commonly called lab report. It is written in a formal and organized manner.
- Laboratory or Scientific Technical Report
It is sometimes called trip report.
- Field Report
Methods of Administering a Survey
Administering a survey is a systematic way of achieving certain goals.
The following methods are introduced by Sarah Mae Sincero (2012).
- Personal Approach
a. Face-to-face Structured Interview
b. Telephone Survey - Self- administered Approach
a. Paper-and- pencil Survey
b. Online Survey
c. Mail Survey
This process of conducting the survey involves the researcher.
It is used to prove the answers of the respondents and at the same time, to observe the behavior of the respondents, either individually or as a group.
- Personal Approach
The interview is set personally, and the people involved face each other in order to gather the necessary information.
Questions on the survey are asked directly to the respondent by the researcher.
a. Face-to-face Structured Interview
The survey is done using telephone or cellular phones.
The calls are made to ask individuals about certain questions.
This method can be used for asking consequential questions.
b. Telephone Survey
• In this type of approach, the survey is administered without the actual presence of the researcher and the respondents are expected to accomplish the survey independently.
- Self- administered Approach
•This is a traditional method of administering a survey which entails that respondent be or are accompanied by someone who is computer literate.
a. Paper-and- pencil Survey
This is a useful technique especially for studies which include many respondents from different locations.
This is used to gather information from respondents who live in different areas.
This enables all participants to answer through different online platforms.
b. Online Survey
• This popular tool requires an easy- administering of the survey where survey questionnaires are mailed to individuals who are given enough time to read and ponder on the information asked.
c. Mail Survey
THREE STEPS IN CONDUCTING A SURVEY
- Decide on a four or five option survey questions.
- Conduct a survey then tally all the answers.
- Count the answers marking the items with the least to the greatest tallies.
Types of Survey Questions (Torneo et. al., 2017, 119-121)
- Open-ended questions
- Dichotomous Questions
- Multiple-response questions
- Matrix questions
- Contingency Questions
These types of questions do not have predetermined options or answers.
The respondents are allowed to answer the questions freely.
Responses must be recorded verbatim-especially because coding and analysis will rely on the subject’s exact responses.
Open-ended questions of ten need probing or follow-up questions to clarify certain items in the of something. subject’s response. These question typically ask the “how” and “why”
- Open-ended questions