- Forms of questionnaires - Types of items in questionnaires - Basic guidelines for constructing items - Questionnaire format - Preliminary tryout - Techniques for usable returns - Reliability and validity of questionnaires Interview : - Advantages and disadvantages of interview - Effects of interview on data collection - Reliability, objectivity, and validity of interview - Biasing factors in the interview - Types of interview: individual and group, structured and unstructured - Conduct of interview Observation : - Simple observation: controlled, participant and non-participant - Aid in simple observation - Systematic observation: Control over the observer and the subject. Rating Scales : - Numerical scales - Graphic scales - Descriptive graphic scales - Rules for constructing scales Standardized : - Characteristics of a good standardized test - Factors to be considered in test selection - Using tests in research - Different of standardized tests: - Intelligence, aptitudes, achievement, diagnostic, measure of interest, personality, attitude scales - Tests available in Gujarati version - Mistakes often committed in selecting, administrating and using standardized tests Other tools: Checklist, scorecard, Sociometry, Q-sort technique, the semantic differential technique, content analysis Unit-II Sampling Techniques: 2.1 Population and sample 2.2 Defining the population 2.3 Characteristics of a good sample 2.4 Importance of sampling 2.5 When should the sample be large?
- Forms of questionnaires - Types of items in questionnaires - Basic guidelines for constructing items - Questionnaire format - Preliminary tryout - Techniques for usable returns - Reliability and validity of questionnaires Interview : - Advantages and disadvantages of interview - Effects of interview on data collection - Reliability, objectivity, and validity of interview - Biasing factors in the interview - Types of interview: individual and group, structured and unstructured - Conduct of interview Observation : - Simple observation: controlled, participant and non-participant - Aid in simple observation - Systematic observation: Control over the observer and the subject. Rating Scales : - Numerical scales - Graphic scales - Descriptive graphic scales - Rules for constructing scales Standardized : - Characteristics of a good standardized test - Factors to be considered in test selection - Using tests in research - Different of standardized tests: - Intelligence, aptitudes, achievement, diagnostic, measure of interest, personality, attitude scales - Tests available in Gujarati version - Mistakes often committed in selecting, administrating and using standardized tests Other tools: Checklist, scorecard, Sociometry, Q-sort technique, the semantic differential technique, content analysis Unit-II Sampling Techniques: 2.1 Population and sample 2.2 Defining the population 2.3 Characteristics of a good sample 2.4 Importance of sampling 2.5 When should the sample be large?
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