Collecting Data Questions
Name: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Date: ___________________
I. Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions.
1. Why does data collection become important after addressing hypothesis, objectives, and research problem?
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Mention two ethical issues concerning research participants.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Why is it important to obtain informed consent from respondents?
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. What is considered unethical regarding incentives in research?
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. Explain why confidentiality is an important ethical concern in data collection.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6. Mention two unethical practices related to the researcher.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
7. What is the purpose of data editing?
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
8. How does coding help in analyzing data?
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
9. What tools can researchers use to code textual data?
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
10. Summarize in your own words the importance of ethical considerations in data collection.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________