Week 13: Understanding
Data and Ways to
Systematically Collect Data
01 02
Planning the Data
Collection Procedure 02
Structure of
03 Methodology
01
Planning the Data
Collection Procedure
Now that you have learned the important factors to consider in developing
your research instrument, you can now plan the steps you will take in your
actual data gathering. These steps are clustered intro three phases: before,
during and after the data collection (Barrot, 2017).
BEFORE:
1. Develop your data collection instruments and materials.
2. Seek permission from the authorities and heads of the institutions or
communities where you will conduct your study.
3. Select and screen the population using appropriate sampling techniques.
4. Train the raters, observers, experimenters, assistants, and other research
personnel who may be involved in data gathering.
5. Obtain informed consent from the participants/respondents. An informed
consent form is a document which explains the objectives of the study and
the extent of the participants’/respondents’ involvement in the research. It
also ensures the confidentiality of certain information about the
participants/ respondents and their responses.
6. Pilot-test the instruments to determine potential problems that may occur
when they are administered.
DURING:
1. Provide instructions to the participants/respondents and explain how the
data will be collected.
2. Administer the instruments, and implement the intervention or
treatment, if applicable.
AFTER:
1. Immediately encode or transcribe and archive your data.
2. Safeguard the confidentiality of your data.
3. Later, examine and analyze your data using appropriate statistical tools.
For the experimental research, you should present a
very elaborate data gathering procedure, from the
first step to the last.
Lastly, you should mention the procedure you
would be undertaking after you have retrieved a
substantial number of the questionnaire
according to your sampling design, like tallying,
and
subjecting the data using statistical tools.
02
Structure of
Methodology
Research Design
▪ Overview of the design used for the study
▪ The plan or structure for conducting a study whether it is
experimental, quasi- experimental, correlational, case
study, exploratory, descriptive, phenomenology,
ethnography, etc.
▪ Summarizes the set of procedures that the researcher will
use to obtain data to answer the research problems
Setting
▪ Included only if the setting is of particular significance or
importance
Respondents/ Participants
▪ Includes the number and relevant characteristics of the
respondents as well as the sampling plan and technique
▪ The term “Respondents” is more appropriate when the
method to be used is Survey; “Participants” if Interview or
FGD
Sample Size and Sampling Technique
▪ This section is where the researcher discusses the process
he used in coming up with the specific number of
respondents for the study and how the individual
respondents from the population will be selected from the
population
Instrumentation
▪ This section discusses the data gathering tool that is used
in the study
▪ Discuss how many sections/ parts, what are the parts, how
many questions etc.
Data Gathering Procedure
▪ Contains the process used when conducting the actual
study
▪ Includes the step-by-step “recipe” beginning with how the
subjects were contacted all the way to how the data were
collected
▪ Should also contain the Ethical Considerations applied in
the study (e.g. informed
▪ consent, debriefing procedures, and so forth)
Statistical Treatment/Data Analysis
▪ Describes the procedure on how the data are to be (or
were) analyzed
for Quantitative – Statistical Treatment/ Analysis
for Qualitative – Thematic/ Content Analysis
for Mixed – Statistical and Thematic or Content Analysis
Thank you for listening.
Do you have any question/
clarification?
