self report technique+design

• What is a structured interview?

  Interviewer has a pre-prepared set of questions that they ask the interviewee.
• What is an unstructured interview?

  • like a conservation
  • few prepared questions if any
• what’s an semi structured interview ?

  • majority are these
  • questions decided in advance
• what’s a strength of self report techniques

  • produce mass amounts of info as researchers can ask follow up questions to the interviewer.
  • helps collect data from people who struggle to write or express emotion on paper.
  • easy to replicate
• whats a weakness of self report techniques?

  • difficult to analyse
  • researches can end up with a lot of data that may not be relevant
  • people may be less confident releasing personal info i person when compared to writing down.
  • bias
• what’s an open questionnaire ?

  • doesn’t have a fixed range of answers
  • respondents can answer how they like
  • produce qualitative data.
• what’s a closed questionnaire

  • fixed possible answers
  • produce quantitive data
• what’s a strength of questionnaires

  • can gather information very quickly
  • easier to analyse compared to interviews
  • easy to compare
  • can be converted into quantitive data
• what’s a weakness of questionnaires?

  • social desirability
  • results are less valid
  • makes respondents answer in a certain way = affects validity
• what’s the likert scale?

  • respondert indicates their agreement with a statement using a scale of normality range from strongly disagree.