METHODS - Questionnaires

Question 1

What are Self-Report methods?

Answer 1

A method involving the collection of data from participants in their own work and/or activities directly completed by them.

Question 2

What do Self-Report methods include?

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Answer 2

Questionnaires, interviews & diaries.

Question 3

Who favours questionnaires?

Answer 3

Positivists

Question 4

Questionnaires can be ________ or _______ methods.

They generate ____ amounts of data very _____.

Answer 4

a) qualitative
b) quantitative
c) large
d) quickly

Question 5

What are common examples of questionnaires?

Answer 5

The National Consensus or Crime Survey for England and Wales

Question 6

What is operationalisation?

Answer 6

Making items that are scientifically valid.

Question 7

Should questionnaires be operationalised?

Answer 7

Yes

Question 8

Questions within questionnaires must be completely _____ so we can be sure they’re _______ only what you _____ and only have one _______.

Answer 8

a) clear
b) answering
c) want
d) interpretation

Question 9

Types of questions

What are the two types of questions?

Answer 9

Open and closed.

Question 10

Types of questions

Describe closed questions.

Answer 10

Respondents are given a restricted range of options.

Question 11

Types of questions

Explain the ADVANTAGES of CLOSED questions.
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Answer 11

Makes it easy to produce statistical data and to analyse answers.

Favoured by positivists - they see the answers as social facts.

Good for testing existing theories and producing reliable data that can be checked.

Question 12

Types of questions

Explain the DISADVANTAGES of CLOSED questions.
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Answer 12

Respondents can’t clarify concepts or qualify views.

Poor for collecting information about feelings, meanings or motives.

Not favoured by interpretivists.

Question 13

Types of questions

Describe open questions.

Answer 13

Respondents can answer whatever they choose.

Question 14

Types of questions

Explain the ADVANTAGES of OPEN questions.
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Answer 14

Produces more in-depth data and is better for discovering complex feelings, meanings or motives.

It is preferred by interpretivists.

Question 15

Types of questions

Explain the DISADVANTAGES of OPEN questions.
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Answer 15

Answers need to be interpreted to understand the data, making it less objective.

Difficult and time-consuming to produce statistical data from the results.

Less favoured by positivists.

Question 16

Methods of administering the questionnaire.

What are the different ways of administering the questionnaire?
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Answer 16

Face-to-face
Telephone
Postal
Internet

Question 17

Methods of administering the questionnaire.

What are the ADVANTAGES of FACE-TO-FACE administration?
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Answer 17

High response rate

Can clarify questions

Question 18

Methods of administering the questionnaire.

What are the DISADVANTAGES of FACE-TO-FACE administration?
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Answer 18

Interviewer may influence responses (interviewer bias)

Time-consuming and therefore potentially expensive.

Question 19

Methods of administering the questionnaire.

What are the DISADVANTAGES of TELEPHONE administration?
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Answer 19

Low response rate

Limited to those with telephones

Respondents may be influenced by voice of interviewer.

Question 20

Methods of administering the questionnaire.

What are the ADVANTAGES of POSTAL administration?
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Answer 20

Cheap

Easy to access a geographically dispersed sample

Question 21

Methods of administering the questionnaire.

What are the DISADVANTAGES of POSTAL administration?
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Answer 21

Low response rate

Those responding may be atypical of whole population.

Question 22

Methods of administering the questionnaire.

What are the ADVANTAGES of INTERNET administration?
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Answer 22

Inexpensive

Quick to send to a widely dispersed sample.

Question 23

Methods of administering the questionnaire.

What are the DISADVANTAGES of INTERNET administration?
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Answer 23

Low response rate

Limited to those with internet access