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INSTRUMENTS FOR DATA COLLECTION

Elis Acosta Spanish

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APROACHES
- Posing a hypothesis
  - Read earlier researches
    - Better with no group of learners
    - Replicate them
    - Follow up studies
    - Not exact replications
  - Experimental science
    - Predictions from theory
- Collecting data
  - Observing classrooms
  - Scanning the data
  - Ethnography
  - Problems
    - No testable predictions
      - No control in variables
    - Origin of theories
    - Focus on visible things
- How affect
  - Particular problem
  - General issue
    - Data decision
DATA COLLECTION
- Interviews
  - Oral form
  - Characteristics
    - Open
      - Freedom of expression
      - Informal
    - Semi-open
      - Certain degree of freedom
    - Semi-structured
      - Beforehand questions
    - Structured
      - Questionnaires or checklists
      - Specific closed questions
      - Specific answers
  - Information
    - Individual
      - Problems
        Time consuming
        Subjective information
    - Group
- Questionnaires
  - Questions or statements
    - Anonymous
  - Written form
  - Characteristics
    - Open
    - Semi-open
    - Semi-structured
    - Structured
      - Likert scale
        Grade from 1-5
      - Semantic differential
        Bipolar scale
  - Advantages
    - Large groups
    - Uniform & standard data
    - Accurate data collected
  - Disadvantages
    - Subjective
    - Sample of students
      - Too limited
      - Unrepresentative as a whole
    - Home answered
      - Affect validity
    - Long questionnaires
      - Intrusive
- Diaries
  - Anecdotal
  - Subjective
  - Provide
    - Learners' feelings
    - Learners' process of information
  - Explore learning strategies
    - Metacognitive instruction
- Case studies
  - Longitudinal
    - Individual development
      - Long time period
  - Draw up hypotheses
  - Hybrid
    - Neo-ethnographic
    - Evaluate
    - Multi-site
    - Action
  - Advantages
    - Based on reality
    - Generalizable
    - Multiplicity viewpoints
      - Different interpretations
    - Data bank
      - Future researchs
    - Insights into practice
    - More accessible