HPED 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Discrete Category, Likert Scale
8 Feb 2020
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Questionnaires/ interviews: measures how people think/report they feel, act, and think. Increased probability of socially desirable response: personal interview. Question styles: closed ended questions (quantitative, rating scales (likert scale, open ended questions (qualitative) Loaded questions includes non-neutral or emotionally laden terms. Leading questions sways the respondent to answer in a desired manner: double-barrelled questions asks more than one thing at a time. Interviews: qualitative interviews are usually open ended questions. Informal conversational interviews: semi-structured interviews, standard open ended interviews, usually tape recorded and transcribed unled it"s not feasible or too intrusive, tests. Instrument used to assess individual differences in various content areas. Possible problems: state of participant on given day. Interpretation of results: behavioural measures, observation and recording of behavior. Classifying the observation: participant vs. non-participant, disguised vs. non-disguised subjects aware or unaware, laboratory vs. natural setting control or realism, direct vs.
