Exam 11: Using Interviews and Focus Groups

In quantitative research, the researcher decides what needs to be known, and designs a very precise data gathering instrument to gather data in order to create knowledge.

Interviews and focus groups are research methodologies.

Focus groups and interviews are often used in research undertaken within a social constructionist or interpretive philosophical framework.

Online focus groups (OFG) can be synchronous, in real time, or asynchronous, out of real time.

Bias in research is anything that contaminates or compromises the research. Researchers have to be vigilant in their attempts to avoid bias in their research.

In a telephone interview the researcher conducts the interview:

Bias can refer to a particular perspective that the research takes which highlights some aspects or findings of the research while ignoring or even hiding others.

The first issue to examine when critiquing the data gathering methods used is:

Bias can be introduced into a research project at any stage, as the design stage, during sampling, data gathering, data analysis, or at the stage of detailing findings and coming to conclusions about research.

In a photo elicitation interview the researcher conducts the interview:

Focus groups are generally used when:

A pilot study is:

In designing a data gathering instrument the most important issue is: