Observational research
Time, actors, and events.
What are examples of things we can observe?
Questions that capture age, race, gender, education, etc.
What are demographic questions?
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A question at the start of an interview to help a participant feel comfortable.
What is a warm-up question?
The # of people who completed a survey divided by the total # of surveys sent.
The domain in which we conducted our class observations.
What is the public domain?
When participants answer questions in their own words.
What are open-ended questions?
Question with ordered responses (e.g., strongly disagree to strongly agree).
What is a Likert scale question?
Confirming it is ok to record the interview and asking the participant if they have any questions.
What are key steps to take before beginning the interview?
Total number of people who completed the survey or interview.
What is the n size? (or sample size)
Lying to participants who you observe.
What is deception?
1=Strongly Disagree; 2=Disagree;
3=Neither Disagree nor Agree;
4= Agree; 5=Strongly Agree
What are response scales?
When a respondent is prompted to skip to a new question based on how they answered the previous question.
What is question logic?
Tone used to conduct interviews.
What is a neutral tone?
The extent to which our findings hold true for the population.
What is generalizability?
The type of descriptions we aim to capture when noting our observations.
What is rich description?
When respondents answer questions about themselves.
What is self-report data?
Qualtrics featured used for adding Bold, Italics, Underlined, etc. formatting.
What is rich text editor?
How we invite a participant to offer more information during an interview.
What are question prompts?
The process of removing confidential information from the data.
What is de-identifying?
Observational method that involves observing people’s behavior in the environment in which it typically occurs.
What is naturalistic observation?
“the abstract idea, underlying theme, or subject matter” we are investigating
What are constructs?
Qualtrics feature you can use to customize question and choice wording for each participant.
What is piped text?
Long and double-barreled questions.
What are types of questions to avoid asking in an interview?
Who are straight-liners?