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The document outlines strategies and tools for data collection, emphasizing the importance of understanding the context and characteristics of effective instruments. It categorizes data collection methods into observation, surveys, interviews, focus groups, experimentation, and laboratory testing, highlighting their advantages and limitations. Additionally, it distinguishes between quantitative and qualitative approaches, detailing their respective data characteristics and analysis challenges.

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Research Reviewer

The document outlines strategies and tools for data collection, emphasizing the importance of understanding the context and characteristics of effective instruments. It categorizes data collection methods into observation, surveys, interviews, focus groups, experimentation, and laboratory testing, highlighting their advantages and limitations. Additionally, it distinguishes between quantitative and qualitative approaches, detailing their respective data characteristics and analysis challenges.

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Selecting and Constructing Data Collection Instruments

DATA COLLECTION STRATEGIES DATA COLLECTION TOOLS


1. What you need to know. 1. OBSERVATION (See what is
2. Where the data reside. happening)
3. Resources and time available.
4. Frequency of the data collection. 2. SURVEYS
5. Complexity of the data to be - Excellent for asking people
collected. about perceptions,
6. Intended forms of data analysis. opinions, ideas
- Less accurate for
CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD measuring behavior
INSTRUMENT - Sample should be
1. Relevant (Measures what is representative of the whole
needed) - Big problem with response
2. Credible (Data is believable, rates
viewed as the reasonable and
appropriate way to capture the info 3. INTERVIEWS
sought) - Often semi-structured
3. Valid (Measures what it intends to - Used to explore complex
measure) issues in depth
4. Reliable (A measure’s precision - Forgiving of mistakes:
and stability - extent to which the unclear questions can be
same result would be obtained with clarified during the
repeated trials) interview and changed for
subsequent interviews
DIFFERENT APPROACHES - Can provide evaluators with
★ QUANTITATIVE APPROACH an intuitive sense of the
1. Data in numerical form situation
2. Data can be precisely
measured 4. FOCUS GROUPS (Type of
3. Harder to develop qualitative research where small
4. Easier to analyze homogenous groups of people are
brought together to informally
★ QUALITATIVE APPROACH discuss specific topics under the
1. Data that deal with guidance of a moderator)
description
2. Can be 5. EXPERIMENTATION
observed/self-reported, not - Controlled set-up
always precisely measure - Identifying the relationship
3. Less structured, easier to between the independent
develop but harder to and the dependent variable
analyze - Trial and error
4. Can provide “rich data” - Formulate conclusion
5. Labor intensive to collect based from the gathered
6. Usually generates longer results
reports
6. LABORATORY TESTINGS

Other Measurement Tools


Selecting and Constructing Data Collection Instruments
- scales (weight)
- tape measure
-stop watches
- chemical tests: i.e. quality of
water
- health testing tools: i.e. blood
pressure
- aptitude and achievement tests
-citizen report cards

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