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Research Data Collection Instruments

The document discusses the data collection instruments that will be used in an action research study. These include observation guides, checklists, oral interviews, and questionnaires. All instruments will be part of an action plan matrix that outlines the phases, actions, resources, responsibilities, and notes for the study. The target population will validate the instruments and provide feedback to ensure the tools accurately capture the objectives of the study. Validity and reliability will be established through baseline validity, interpretive validity to analyze qualitative data, and triangulation validity to compare results from different instruments and perspectives.

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Research Data Collection Instruments

The document discusses the data collection instruments that will be used in an action research study. These include observation guides, checklists, oral interviews, and questionnaires. All instruments will be part of an action plan matrix that outlines the phases, actions, resources, responsibilities, and notes for the study. The target population will validate the instruments and provide feedback to ensure the tools accurately capture the objectives of the study. Validity and reliability will be established through baseline validity, interpretive validity to analyze qualitative data, and triangulation validity to compare results from different instruments and perspectives.

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4.4.3.

Data Collection Instruments

The instruments to be used during the development of this Action Research will be

observation guides (Appendix 3), checklists (Appendix 4), oral interviews (Appendix 5) and

questionnaires. All these instruments will be part of an entire Plan of Action to be developed

during the action of the studied, consequently, it will be built based on the indicators included

in the operationalization of the variables. The Plan of Action will be set in a matrix in which

the different phases of the action will be included. Therefore, in such matrix, each action to

be performed, the date, the instruments and resources to be used, the persons in charge of

each action, and comments or observations will be established. Nevertheless, before

beginning the implementation of the Plan of Action, the researchers should get together with

the students, and everybody together will reflect on each of its parts so that everybody agrees

on the way each strategy will be developed and if it is according to their likes. All the

instruments will be helpful to measure whether the strategies (indicators) are fulfilling the

objectives of the study. If they are not, the strategies will be changed by means of reflection.

As a matter of fact, other instruments will be designed.

4.4.4. Validation of Data Collection Instruments

The indispensable validation process of the data collection instruments previously

mentioned will be done within the target population included in this study; no other person’s

insights will be asked or included as the target population is the one that will agree or disagree

on each of the items to be included in the instruments. The target population will get together

and will conduct reflection about how meaningful and accurate the instruments are. If the

instruments need any enhancement, they will integrate such enhancement right after having

checked them.
4.4.5. Validity and Reliability

To assure the proficiency of the instruments previously mentioned, the research team

and the students will enforce three types of validity: Baseline Validity, Interpretative

Hermeneutics Validity, and Triangulation Validity. The first type – Baseline Validity - will

serve to reassure that every element within the instruments is steady and coherent; the

Baseline of this study is the basis for all the steps to be followed during the research process.

Consequently, the researchers will execute Interpretative Hermeneutics Validity through

every reflection which has been carried out up to this point, and every reflection process that

will be carried out with students during the whole development of the Action. This type of

validity is a prominent way to decode all the qualitative data. Moreover, Triangulation

Validity will be used to compare the results gotten from the different tools that will be

administered and to compare all the different perspectives about the action taken. Reliability

will be comforted by means of the validity of the research; that is, in this type of research,

reliability will depend on validity; in other words, if the process is valid, it will also be

reliable.

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