7 Essential Research Instruments Explained
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Alberto Cajal
The instruments of documentary and field research that
more commonly used by scientists and researchers are questionnaires,
interviews, observation, and document collection.
1- Questionnaire
The questionnaire is a data collection instrument that allows
obtain information from a series of questions that the object
must respond.
This instrument is usually preferred when the sample to be studied is
numerous, since several questionnaires can be applied to the same one
time.
Interview
The interview is often used in qualitative research,
such as documentaries. Journalists and psychologists often
to resort to this method to obtain the data.
Observation
This allows studying the object of interest up close, without intermediaries.
that could interfere with the obtained results. The application of
this instrument consists not only in observing what is
happening, but rather in analyzing, synthesizing, and processing the information that
it is being collected.
Documentary compilation
Document collection is a method used in
anytype of researchregardless of whether it is qualitative or
quantitative, documentary or field.
Sampling techniques
These techniques for selecting a representative sample of the
population serve to extrapolate the results of aresearch of
fieldTo do this, one must take into account the possibility of error,
having to be measurable for it to be valid.
Drawings or illustrations
It is usually associated with the observation technique, since in most cases
the cases require being at the site where they develop
facts to be able to make the illustrations.
Digital information flow
This technique has been gaining relevance in recent years with the
digitalization period. Some researchers do not hesitate to observe
what happens on social networks or forums in order to gather that
flow of information that users deposit daily.
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