Questionnaires and Interviews

Question 1

What are self report techniques?

Answer 1

methods of gathering data where participants provide information about themselves without interference from
the experimenter

Question 2

what are questionnaires?

Answer 2

a non experimental, self report method where p’s record their thoughts and feelings in a set of pre determined q’s

Question 3

what’s an open question?

Answer 3

Give the p’s the freedom to say what they want without being restricted to a fixed answer

Question 4

Give an example of an open question?

Answer 4

How much do you enjoy p.e ,what do you enjoy about it and why?

Question 5

what’s a closed question?

Answer 5

Provides a fixed set of response to choose from e.g., yes or no

Question 6

Examples of closed question?
Liket Scales

Answer 6

Respondent indicates agreement with statement on scale
e.g.
Pe should be complulsary until 18
1. 2. 3. 4. 5
strongly agree. strongly disagree

Question 7

Examples of closed q’s?
Semantic differential scales

Answer 7

-respondant identified a value which represents their strength of feelings
e.g. How important do you think eating exercise is
5. 4. 3. 2. 1
Very important. Not important

Question 8

Examples of closed questions?
Fixed Choice Option

Answer 8

Includes a list of options that respondents choose
e.g. how often do you excersise
Never, once a year, once a month, once a day

Question 9

What is quantitative data?

Answer 9

numerical data
concerned with averages and differences

Question 10

What is qualitative data?

Answer 10

non-numerical data
attitudes and belifs

Question 11

Quantitative data strengths?

Answer 11

quick and easy to analyse
easier to establish trends

Question 12

quantitative weekends?

Answer 12

lack debth
limited range of responses

Question 13

what are qualitative data strength?

Answer 13

Rich in debth
New ideas

Question 14

Qualitative data weekness?

Answer 14

difficult to analyse
difficult to find patterns

Question 15

what are interviews?

Answer 15

Where researchers ask q’a in real-time, can be by telephone or face to face

Question 16

what are structured interviews?

Answer 16

A pre-determined set of q’s that interviews stick to

Question 17

strengths of structured interviews?

Answer 17

Requires less skill
Easier to analyse
can be repeated
Quantitive collected and analyse
qualitative data

Question 18

weaknesses of structured interviews?

Answer 18

-Reliability may be affected by different intervals weres asking different q’s of r asking same q in different ways
-restricted answers
-Reliability affect by same interview behaving differently on diff occasions

Question 19

what is a semi structured interview?

Answer 19

interviewers have some pre determined q’s and some they develop on the spot

Question 20

Strengths of a semi-structured interview?

Answer 20

easier to analyse
easily repeated
qualitative data
information accessed may not be revealed by pre determined

Question 21

weakness of a semi structured interview?

Answer 21

Interviewer bias when developing responses
Difficult to analyse data as more of it
different q’s interpreted in diff ways he diff participants
requires more skill

Question 22

What’s an unstructured interview?

Answer 22

The interviewer makes up all q’s on the spot, no plan only ideas

Question 23

Strengths of unstructured?

Answer 23

In debth qualative data
info accessed that may not be revealed by pre determined q’s

Question 24

Unstructured interview weekness?

Answer 24

Interviewer bias when developing responses
reliability affected by diff interviewer asking diff q’s
difficult to analyse as there’s much more data
different q’s interpreted differently by different p’s
Requires more skill