Data and data collection- research

2. D a t a
D a t a c o l l e c t i o n
p r o c e d u r e s

4. Criteria to Select Particular Data Collection
Procedures Based on Types of Research Designs.
Data collection parameter: degree of explicitness of the data
collection procedure.
• Broad
• General Not
explicit
• Determined in
advance
• More structured
Explicit

5. Collecting data by procedures of a low degree of
explicitness is often done by means of open and
informal procedures which tend to be used
simultaneously.
Typical of such data collection procedures are field
notes, records, diaries, observations, and open,
informal interview or conversation with the subjects.

6. Collecting data by means of procedures of a high
degree of explicitess involves the use of formal or
structured types of data collection procedures
which determine in advance the specific focus of
the data that will be sought.
For example: structured questionnaires, discreet point
tests, formal interviews and metalinguistic
judgement tests.

7. Collecting Data Procedures in Qualitative
Types of Research
The procedures used in a qualitative research are not very
explicit and they are used simultaneously.
Interviews: open, informal, unstructured.
Purpose: to obtain information by actually talking to the
object.
Record reviews: collecting data from documents and
other materials.

8. Open Observations: the researcher observes a number of
behaviours taking place simultaneously, often without
determining in advance the particular aspects that will be
observed. Purpose. To examine a phenomenon or behaviour
while it is going on.
Diaries : the researcher or subject record in writing differents
aspects of a process or phenomenon.