Structured Methods Flashcards
4 types of structure methods
- Surveys
- Structured Interviews
- Questionaires
- Observation
Structured methods try to ensure a reliability through
consistency and structure so that how one researcher describes and means by a phenomenon can be seen to be what another researcher describes and means
When considering the order of questions of surveys, what should come first?
most important
where should personal questions be in a survey
at the end to build a rapport with the participants
should you include “don’t know” answers?
yes to avoid participants becoming frustrated
3 types of survey questions
- open answer
- closed answer
- fixed choice
Nominal survey measurement
placing participants into different categories by properties of identity
ordinal
property of identity and magnitude by ordering ranking either from highest to lowest or largest to smallest
5 survey levels of measurement
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- Interval
- Ratio
- Interval/Ratio