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What is a self-report method?
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Gathering data by asking people about their own thoughts, feelings or behaviour.
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What is a survey or questionnaire?
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A set of written questions, the same for everyone, given on paper, online or face to face. The two words mean the same thing.
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What is a structured interview?
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An interview with fixed questions asked the same way each time — easy to compare.
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What is an unstructured interview?
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A guided conversation started by one or two open questions. Rich data, but hard to compare and analyse.
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What is social desirability bias?
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Answering to look good rather than truthfully.
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What is a leading question?
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A question that pushes the respondent towards a particular answer.
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One strength of self-report?
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It reaches thoughts and feelings that cannot be observed.
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One limitation of self-report?
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Answers may be dishonest (social desirability) or inaccurate.
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How do you reduce social desirability bias?
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Use anonymous questionnaires and neutral wording; build trust in interviews.
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Which concept does self-report link to?
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Measurement — it turns private experience into comparable data.
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Closed vs open questions?
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Closed = fixed answers, quantitative; open = own words, qualitative.
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What is a Likert scale?
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A rating scale from, e.g., strongly disagree to strongly agree.
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Structured, semi-structured, unstructured interview?
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Fixed questions in fixed order; prepared open questions that can change; only a topic and a time.
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Focus group: one strength and one limitation?
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Natural conversation sparks ideas; dominant voices and conformity can distort answers.
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What is thematic analysis?
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Finding repeated ideas in transcripts and grouping them into themes that answer the aim.
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What is a semi-structured interview?
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Prepared open questions, with freedom to change the order, skip some and ask follow-ups.
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What are interviewer effects?
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The interviewer's wording, tone or reactions shaping what the person says.
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Engagement, exploration and exit questions?
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The three kinds of focus-group question: to get people talking, to discuss the topic, and to check nothing was missed.
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Why pilot a questionnaire or interview guide?
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To find unclear or leading questions before the real study.
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