RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS Flashcards

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It is a tool used to gather data on specific topic of interest.

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Research Instruments

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  1. Preliminary Research
  2. Ask Advice
  3. Master Guidelines in Preparing
  4. Clarify Research Questions
  5. Decide Number and Demographics
  6. Appropriate format
  7. Edit Instrument
  8. Pilot for further improvement
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Guidelines for Research Instruments

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What are the 3 Commonly Used Research Instruments

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Survey
Observation
Experiment

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Prepared Questions to measure attitudes, perceptions, and opinions

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Survey

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Answer is within respondents and asks for specific information

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Recall

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A response to a specific question such as multiple choice, dichotomous, and rating scale.

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Recognition

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Elicits brief explanations or impressions from the respondents.

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Open-ended

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What are the 3 types of survey questions?

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Recall
Recognition
Open Ended

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Allows researchers to qualitatively gather data

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Interview

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What are the stages of Interview

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Pre-Interview Stage
Warm-Up Stage
Main Interview Stage
Closing Stage

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Arranges questions logically and prepares guide to smoothen flow of interview.

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Pre- Interview Stage

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Initial part of interview, introductions, purpose and confidentiality is presented and informed to the interviewee.

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Warm Up Stage

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Asks main questions directly related to the research questions

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Main Interview Stage

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Asks question meant to wind down the interview, used to transcribe and analyze data

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Closing Stage

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Looks for specific information, responses are usually dichotomous and are an identification type of test, usually limited.

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Questionnaire

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What are the parts of a questionnaire

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Personal Information
Basic Questions
Main Questions
Open-ended Question

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Name, Age, Birthday, and Address are an example of?

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Personal Information

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Establishes whether the person is right for the study, and establishes rapport with the interviewees.

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Basic Questions

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Questions that are directly related to the research

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Main Questions

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Brief explanation or response

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Open-ended Question

21
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What are the 2 forms of Survey?

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Interview and Questionnaire

22
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Behavior in naturalistic of laboratory setting. Requires description of behavior and setting and when respondents cannot literally answer questions.

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Observation

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Observe without interacting with participants

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Non- Participant

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Allows researcher to interact actively with the subjects.

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Participant

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Has a list of behaviors they want to observe

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Structured

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Researcher allows behavior to emerge naturally

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Unstructured

27
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Subjects are unaware that they are being observed

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Covert

28
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Subjects are aware that they are observed

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Overt

29
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A procedure undertaken scientifically and systematically to make a discovery and test hypothesis

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Experiment

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  1. Make observations
  2. Develop experiment
  3. Design experiment
  4. Conduct experiment
  5. Replicate to ensure reliability
  6. Analyze the results
  7. Decide whether to accept or reject test hypothesis
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Guidelines for Experiment