1) being immersed in the field can help to stimulate the experiences of the informant. 2) researchers can intervene in and manipulate a setting to observe the effects. 3) Surveys conducted in the field are more effective than structured observations.
4) email surveys are a type of postal questionnaire. 1) they are quicker and cheaper to administer. One of the advantages of self completion questionnaires over structured interviews is that: 1) they are quicker and cheaper to administer. 2) they create interviewer effects.
Corti (1993) makes a distinction between two types of research driven diary: 1) valid and reliable diaries . 2) quantitative and qualitative diaries. 3) structured and free-text diaries. 4) open or closed answer diaries. 1) the amount of time respondents spend on certain activities every day.
A vignette question is one that asks respondents to think about: 1) family obligations to care for sick relatives. 2) an intensely painful and sensitive issue in their personal life. 3) a scenario involving imaginary characters in a realistic situation. 4) their favourite type of salad dressing.
When using a Likert scale with a long list of items, it is usually better to: 1) arrange the answers horizontally, in abbreviated form. 2) list the answers vertically, for each consecutive item. 3) omit any instructions about how to select an answer. 4) list all questions on one page and all answers on another.
1) The respondent can read the whole questionnaire before answering the first question. 2) The researcher cannot ask many close ended questions. 3) The researcher cannot probe or prompt respondents for more details. 4) The respondent may not answer all questions, resulting in missing data. 4) all of the above.
The purpose of a behavior content matrix is to: show how each part of the lesson will be taught and assessed. The key idea that Bloom's taxonomy offers to teachers is that: in planning a lesson on a given topic, there are many levels of skills to consider.
In field-testing the survey, the teacher finds that students score the same from one testing to the next, and that scores correlate with dropout rates, although the test scores do not correlate with those of three standardized tests on test anxiety. The teacher's test is most DEFICIENT in: