Personal interview, telephone survey, or self-administered survey
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Britton Chomeau
RE: Reserve 9.6
In the following situations, decide whether you would use a personal interview, telephone survey, or self-administered survey. Give your reasons.
You start by defining the three modes of conducting a survey and giving them the most fitting scenarios that they would fit in. In this way, I was able to differentiate how each data collection mode works in terms of the benefits and disadvantages. Given the information detailed in the excerpt, it is now possible to approach the personal interview, telephone survey, and self-administered survey concerning the given scenario. In the first scenario, we need to collect data through the use of a self-centered survey. The real nature of this makes it possible to identify the participants since it is a new sub-division easily. Your pick of a self-centered is inclined to the costs as the main driving factor. As you highlighted self-centered,is the most efficient, lowest cost, and allows access to the largest sample group(Schindler, 2019, p. 199). This factor makes it possible for the survey to accommodate the views of almost every new member in the new subdivision. The approach also is supported by the fact that it is easier to identify the new members.
In the second scenario, I find it feasible that the use of a telephone survey would be the best fitting approach for conducting a poll on Metro University students’ preferences. It is well known that students are motivated to complete surveys if there is the availability of incentives, and they also spend much time on their mobiles. The use of incentives will increase the response rate as it potentially draws attention to the survey. Incentives are also a way of saying thank you to the respondents. However, the use of incentives can lead to a series of problems. The survey may be subject to attracting responses that are entirely unthoughtful as the students may be in a hurry. Therefore, when coming up with an incentive, one must be careful of how he/she comes up with the incentive.
On the bright side, I find your argument evident in your choice of the data collection approaches, low cost, and efficiency to be a primary concern for researchers. The two, cost and efficiency, therefore, have a significant impact on choosing the best approaches. However, we should factor in the existing factors that also characterize the scenario as each may have a unique aspect that potentially guides the researcher.
Finally, as Ecclesiastes 9:10 says, Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom. The verse takes the approach that, despite the approach chosen, the best results can be established if one gets to acknowledge the essence and take the required effort and determination.
References
English Standard Version Bible (2016). Bible Gateway. https://classic.biblegateway.com/versions/English-Standard-Version-ESV-Bible/ (Original work published 1952).
Hopper, J. (2010, February 25). How to Conduct a Telephone Survey for Gold Standard Research. https://verstaresearch.com/blog/how-to-conduct-a-telephone-survey-for-gold-standard-research/.
Jong, J. de. (2016). DATA COLLECTION: SELF-ADMINISTERED SURVEYS. Cross-cultural Survey Guidelines. https://ccsg.isr.umich.edu/index.php/chapters/data-collection-chapter/self-administered-surveys.
Schindler, P. S. (2019). Business Research Methods (13th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 9781259918933.