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What do we mean by collecting data? What do we mean by analyzing data? Why should you collect and analyze data for your evaluation? When and by whom should data be collected and analyzed? How do you collect and analyze data? In previous sections of this chapter, we’ve discussed studying the issue, deciding on a research design, and creating an observational system for gathering information for your evaluation. Now it’s time to collect your data and analyze it – figuring out what it means – so that you can use it to draw some conclusions about your work. In this section, we’ll examine how to do just that. What do we mean by collecting data? Essentially, collecting data means putting your design for collecting information into operation. You’ve decided how you’re going to get information – whether by direct observation, interviews, surveys, experiments and testing, or other methods – and now you and/or other observers have to implement your plan. There’s a bit more to collecting data, however. If you are conducting observations, for example, you’ll have to define what you’re observing and arrange to make observations at the right times, so you actually observe what you need to. You’ll have to record the observations in appropriate ways and organize them so they’re optimally useful. Recording and organizing data may take different forms, depending on the kind of information you’re collecting. The way you collect your data should relate to how you’re planning to analyze and use it. Regardless of what method you decide to use, recording should be done concurrent with data collection if possible, or soon afterwards, so that nothing gets lost and memory doesn’t fade. Some of the things you might do with the information you collect include: Gathering together information from all sources and observations Making photocopies of all recording forms, records, audio or video.
pdfCHAPTER 3 - RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: Data collection method and Research tools9 PagesUploaded bySpyros LangkosFiles1 of 2CHAPTER_3_-_RESEARCH_M. to downloadREAD PAPERDownloadUploaded bySpyros LangkosLoading PreviewSorry, preview is currently unavailable. You can download the paper by clicking the button above.RELATED PAPERSMellado, Claudia and Van Dalen, Arjen (2013). Between rhetoric and practice. Explaining the gap between role conception and performance in journalism. Journalism Studies.by Claudia Mellado.
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