Week 3(a) - The process of conducting an interview.

In today's class, we read about the research framework together. And we did a group activity in the class assigned by the lecturer. We were divided 7 into groups and each of the groups had 3 people who were assigned to read an article each on research methodologies- qualitative and quantitative. These research methods included Survey Research, Questionnaires, and Interview. We read these research methods to let us understand what is expected or requested of our research in the project. After we finish the reading part, each group had to do a mind-map on jam board to show our findings.

Group 4 Jam Board:

Basically, we need to think about what type of questions we want to ask and what we wish to know from the data. We need to keep the question always clear and easy to understand. Also have to make sure our survey questions will be relevant to all respondents and that you use filter questions when necessary. To avoid questions that are likely to confuse respondents. However, we still have to imagine how respondents would feel responding to questions.

Types of the Question:

• Closed-ended questions - questions for which the researcher offers response options

• Double-barreled question- a question that asks two different questions at the same time, making it difficult to respond accurately

• Fence-sitters- respondents who choose neutral response options, even if they have an opinion

• Filter question- question that identifies some subset of survey respondents who are asked additional questions that are not relevant to the entire sample

• Floaters- respondents that choose a substantive answer to a question when really, they don’t understand the question or don’t have an opinion

• Matrix question- lists a set of questions for which the answer categories are all the same

• Open-ended questions- questions for which the researcher does not include response options

An example I get from internet.

Today I learned how important each of these research methods. These methods can help us progress further in our project research. It can learn a lot and make great improvements to the questionnaire simply by pretesting with a small number of people to whom you have easy access.

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Reference:

DeCarlo, M. (2020). 11.4 Designing effective questions and questionnaires. Retrieved 8 May 2020, from https://scientificinquiryinsocialwork.pressbooks.com/chapter/11-4-designing-effective-questions-and-questionnaires/#return-footnote-386-4