Thursday, February 25, 2016

Research Method

Survey

 

Survey is a type of research that gathering informations from individual. Surveys can be conduct by many ways such as print out questionnaires, online survey, through phones,mail or may be in person. The data are being collected by asking the same questions or having the same procedures for each individuals. After collected all the data, we are supposed to analyze in the manner of a problem we want to look at.

 

Advantage of Survey

-Survey helps to reduce the cost of research due to it does not require high amount of money in order to create it.
-It can be used in order to find out an opinion from a large group of people, and the results are accurate.
-Survey can be very flexibility since it can be in severals kinds of form such as ( paper, online, website, telephone, in person, mails )
- It is convenient for both who is a researcher and who got survey since the survey is usually conducted in a very simple form and straight to the point.

Limitation of Survey

-It is lack of visual material since it is mainly about questionnaire therefore there might be a confusion of the text.
-Some of the survey method is very time consuming such as in person because it takes time to go around and ask each person question by question.
- Limited opinion in the survey because the answer is restricted.
-It is difficult to tell if the result is truthful or not.


Interview

An interview is a process of collecting data by asking questions and getting answer from the participation in a study.There are different ways to proceed the interview such as face to face, through telephone, or a group interview. Interview is mainly focusing on each person's individual experience in detailed.


Advantage of an interview

-This method helps the interviewee to focus on a question that have been asked because it is proceed with face to face.
-With this method we can ensure that the person we are interviewing actually understood the questions properly before they give an answer therefore more accurate data.
-It can develop the relationship between the interviewer and interviewee to increase the mutual understanding and co-operate between the parties.
-Detailed informations will be collected from this research method therefore easier to analyze.

 Disadvantage of an interview

-Time consuming since the interviewee will need more times to answer the questions.
-Personal data might leak in this research method.
-Can be costly because need to hire a professional interviewer in order to get the accurate data.
-The data might be too complicated to analyze because there are too many informations .

 



  

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