The Potential of Self Recorded Audio Tape for Data Collection in Distance Education [microform] / Fred Lockwood
- Bib ID:
- 5556296
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Lockwood, Fred
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED355939
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1992
- 9 p.
- Summary:
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The collection of data by face-to-face interviews and questionnaires is common and literature in these areas is extensive; but few cases are reported in which respondents have been provided with a blank audio cassette tape, interview schedule, or open-ended questionnaire items, and been invited to record their own comments and forward these to the researcher. This paper begins to redress this imbalance by reporting two studies using a technique involving self-recorded audio cassette tape used along with conventional qualitative data collection methods. The studies involved 2 groups of 64 and 40 students, respectively who were taking courses given by the British Open University in Milton Keynes, England. In the first study, face-to-face interviews and open-ended questionnaire items were compared with the audio-taped responses. In the second study, the three data collection methods were supplemented by the use of telephone interviews. A review of two other studies using self-reported audiotapes supports the findings of these studies, which demonstrate that the use of self-recorded audiotapes is straightforward and presents few problems in subsequent analysis. Some of the limitations of the technique are discussed. (Contains 8 references.) (SLD)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Council for Distance Education (16th, Bangkok, Thailand, November 9-13, 1992).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Audiotape Cassettes
- Audiotape Recordings
- College Students
- Comparative Testing
- Data Analysis
- Data Collection
- Distance Education
- Foreign Countries
- Higher Education
- Interviews
- Nontraditional Students
- Qualitative Research
- Questionnaires
- Research Methodology
- Self Recordings (Audiotape)
- Open University (Great Britain) Self Report Measures
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- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1992
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