Which of the following data collection approaches does not belong with the others?

Question 1 options:

Questionnaire

Focused interview

Life history

 Focus group interview

Question 2 (1 point)

A major purpose of a pretest of an instrument is to:

Question 2 options:

Detect inadequacies in an interview schedule or questionnaire

Obtain some preliminary results on the research problem

 Assess the adequacy of the research design

Evaluate whether an unstructured approach would be more suitable

Question 3 (1 point)

Questionnaires have the advantage of:

Question 3 options:

Offering the possibility of anonymity

Having high response rates

Eliminating response set biases

Being suitable for all types of respondents

Question 4 (1 point)

On a five-point Likert scale, a person who neither agreed nor disagreed with the statement would be scored as:

Question 4 options:

0

1

3

5

Question 5 (1 point)

The technique that is least susceptible to response-set bias is:

Question 5 options:

Interviews

 Q-sorts 

Questionnaires

Projective measures