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Please read in your class textbooks Chapters 14 (Data Collection, Testing, and Observation) and 15 (Data Collection, Interviewing).
Discussion Question:
What are the challenges encountered in data collection as it applies to research? What are the types of interview technique when interviewing participants? List your preferences and tell us why?
This discussion forum is based on readings from Chapters one and two from the textbook
What type of research topic would be of interest to you? Elaborate on the factors that motivated you and what do you seek to accomplish. What is the basis for your literature?
Information is clear and relates to the topic. Provides relevant resources using APA guidelines. Enhances the critical thinking process through premise reflection
Explanation & Answer
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Data Collection: Observation, testing and interviewing - Outline
I. Challenges to data collection
A. The participant's willingness to offer the recommended data
B. Development of rapport
C. The credibility of information may be hard to discern
D. Research logistics
II. Types of Interviews
A. Semi-structured interviews involve those that have a clearly outlined interview
protocol for use in guiding the interview process
B. The unstructured interviews have no guidelines and use informal questions to
build rapport and gather information
C. The structured interviews are strictly based on definite structure and research
questions that the researcher precisely needs to follow
D. Focus groups are those conducted using a group of participants; then, the data is
combined.
III. Type of research topic
A. Descriptive research is one that interests me
B. The literature will involve other author's discoveries about the topic and the
various gaps in their studies t...
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