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Description
Mind Map by Mahnoor Raja, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Mahnoor Raja
almost 7 years ago
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Questionnaires
- Open ended: Allow
respondents to choose own
answer
- Set of written questions that are either given to respondents
to complete or are posted to them
- Closed-ended: Give
definite answers.
- Preferred: 1. Help researchers achieve what they want:
Clear, definite answers, quickly obtained, easily Quantified
- Preferred: 1. Help researchers achieve what they want:
Clear, definite answers, quickly obtained, easily Quantified
- Functions:
- Operationalise a concept
- Process by which abstract
idea is broken down into
logical subheadings
- Process by which abstract
idea is broken down into
logical subheadings
- Large number of questions asked from large
group of people in short time
- No Interviewer Bias
- Trends identified, Hypothesis tested
- Data reliable, generalisable
- Operationalise a concept
- Postal
- Reach largest group
- Low response rate
- Who return must have
interest in research topic
- Reach largest group
- By Hand
- CRITICS
- Interactionists:
- Lack Validity
- The meaning respondents give to their answers may vary
- What may matter to researched may not be significant to respondent
- A very small part of respondents POV is revealed
- Researcher gains little or no knowledge of how they interact with others and the world
- Respondent not involved in research
- Respondent not involved in research
- Researcher gains little or no knowledge of how they interact with others and the world
- A very small part of respondents POV is revealed
- What may matter to researched may not be significant to respondent
- The meaning respondents give to their answers may vary
- Lack Validity
- Rely on goodwill of respondents
- Give respondents no chance to ask questions
- Expect certain level of literacy
- Assumes respondents mean what they say
- Interactionists:
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