DATA COLLECTION for senior high school students in research

data collection

1. Finding Answers through Data Collection

2. Data-Collection Methods in Qualitative Research: Observation Interview Survey through Questionnaires

3. OBSERVATION is a technique of gathering data whereby you personally watch, interact, or communicate with the subjects of your research. It lets you record what people exactly do and say in their everyday life on Earth. Through this data gathering technique, proofs to support your claims or conclusions about your topic are obtained in natural setting.

4. Types: Participant Observation the observer, who is the researcher, takes part in the activities of the individual or group being observed. Your actual involvement enables you to obtain firsthand knowledge about the subjects’ behavior and the way they interact with one another. To record your findings through this type of observation, use the diary method or logbook .

5. Types: 2. Non-participation or Structured Observation t his type of observation completely detaches you from the target of your observation. You just watch and listen to them do their own thing, without you participating in any of their activities. Recording of non-participation observations happens through the use of a checklist .

6. Methods of Observation: Direct Observation makes you see or listen to everything that happens in the area of observation. 2. Indirect Observation a lso called behavior archaeology, here, you observe traces of past events to get information or a measure of behavior , trait, or quality of your subject.

7. QUIZ Directions: Write YES if the topic can lend itself to observation technique, and NO if it is not.

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10. INTERVIEW is a data gathering technique that makes you verbally ask the subjects or respondents questions to give answers to what your research study is trying to look for. Done mostly in qualitative research studies, interview aims at knowing what the respondents think and feel about the topic of your research.

11. Types: Structured Interview r equires the use of an interview schedule or a list of questions answerable with one and only item from a set of alternative responses. Choosing one answer from the given set of answers, the respondents are barred from giving answers that reflect their own thinking or emotions about the topic.

12. Types: 2. Unstructured Interview the respondents answer the questions based on what they personally think and feel about it. There are no suggested answers. They purely depend on the respondents’ decision-making skills, giving them opportunity to think critically about the question.

13. Types: 3. Semi-structured Interview Here, you prepare a schedule or a list of questions that is accompanied by a list of expressions from where the respondents can pick out the correct answer. However, after choosing one from the suggested answers, the respondents answer another set of questions to make them explain the reasons behind their choices.

14. Approaches: Individual interview – only one respondent is interviewed here. Group interview – ask the questions to a group of people at the same time. Mediated interview – takes place through electronic communication devices such as telephones, mobile phones, email, among others.

15. Steps in Conducting an Interview Step 1: Getting to Know Each Other Step 2: Having an Idea of the Research Step 3: Starting the Interview Step 4: Conducting the Interview Proper Step 5: Putting an End to the Interview Step 6: Pondering Over Interview Afterthoughts

16. QUESTIONNAIRE i s a paper containing a list of questions including the specific place and space in the paper where you write the answers to the questions. This prepared set of questions elicits factual or opinionated answers from the respondent’s through his or her acts of checking one chosen answer from several options or of writing on a line provided for any opinionated answer.

17. Types: Postal questionnaire This type of questionnaire goes to the respondent through postal service or electronic mail. It is through the mail or postal system that the accomplished questionnaires will be sent back to the researchers. In some cases, the researcher can personally collect finished questionnaires.

18. Types: 2. Self-administered questionnaire This kind of questionnaire makes you act as the interviewer and the interviewee at the same time. First, you ask the questions either in person or through phone; then, you will be writing the interviewee’s answers on a piece of paper. A questionnaire like this fits a structured kind of interview.