Exam 11: Using Interviews and Focus Groups

In qualitative research, the researcher loosely designs the research instrument, in order to allow the research participants to control and shape the data that is gathered, and consequently the knowledge generated by the research project.

Examples of the types of systematic error that can be introduced into the research project include sampling bias and respondent bias.

In a group interview the researcher conducts the interview:

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.

The participants in the research must:

Bias can also refer to some systematic error that has somehow been introduced to the research.

Closed questions are questions that provide respondents with a restricted set of possible responses.

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

Open questions tend to generate long or relatively long answers.

The ethical aspects of every element of the research project:

In a group interview, the researcher:

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

The researcher develops the design of the interview and/or focus group schedule in the:

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.

The pilot study demonstrates to the researcher how:

Data gathering techniques are part of the:

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.

In a focus group, the researcher:

The issues of validity and reliability are engaged with differently in qualitative and quantitative data.

An interview or focus group schedule is: