Research Methods for Data Collection

The commonly-used research methods include: ______, INTERVIEW, FOCUS GROUP, SCALES, PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUES, DIARIES DOCUMENTS, RECORDS, and VISUAL METHODS such as PHOTOGRAPHS and/or VIDEO.

Each data gathering technique must be designed by the researcher specially for each ______ project.

The choice of method is dependent on the aim of the research, the population of the study and the data required for the study and on the ______ of that data.

The researcher must know what kind of data are needed and where the data are to be found before decisions can be made about how to gather these ______.

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The data could be in documents or written reports, or in the attitudes or beliefs of human participants in the research, and each of these examples would require the design of a different data gathering ______.