21st Century Skills and Standards 2pages

Probability Sampling: a collection of data from a representative population that has been chosen for the study based on possession of specific characteristics that are of interest.

Accurate as it's dependent on specific facts, Dependable, Valid and reliable due to statistics

Interviewing: Involves the thought and preparation of a schedule of formal-informal settings to allow conversation and discussion in a question-answer situation. This becomes the data used in the research for the determination of a phenomenon.

Accuracy, credibility, reliability, and dependability is dependent on the level of confidence a trust,

Questionnaire: data collection through a set of written question that is distributed to a population for determination of the effect of the particular issue through rating, question and answer, and bulk quantification of attitudes and behavior.

Accurate in the definition of phenomena

Credibility, reliability, and dependability is dependent on the level of confidence trust in unbiased data

Observation: lengthy understanding of a population behavior in their natural setting with the descriptive association of the interaction linking all existing factors that can be defined as the norm within that environment.

Accurate since there is no interaction

Credible due to first-hand participatory element

Reliable when unbiased

Documentation Review: a review of existing information of particular interest and determination of comparative analysis of present and past impacts (Bhat, n.d).

Accurate due to evidence-based facts and dependent on peer-reviewed documentation

Credibility, reliability, and dependability is are through a nominative process of application

Self-Research: observation within one's work to gain more understanding of a situation through a pros and cons analysis process.

Questionable accuracy, dependability, validity, and reliability as its dependent n personal capability to be truthful and competence n self-assessment

Focus Groups: collective discussion among the participants in the definition of macro investigation and an in-depth information collection in a dynamic representative population. The interaction between group members allows for the interviewer to deduce actionable actions and inferences to a phenomenon.

Accurate since there is an interaction that is interpretive based on the interest of research

Credible due to first-hand participatory element

Action Research: this is the type of data collection in which there is a collaborative effort as part of the intervention of practical element in the research in such a way that both interviewer and the interviewee(s) are actively involved by definition of frameworks, the methodology of application, and concern are the definition.

Accurate in the definition of phenomena

Credibility, reliability, and dependability is dependent on the level of confidence trust in unbiased data

Ethnography: data collection methodology used in a qualitative study of culture and people of shared common experience in life as the art of participative observation in the social circle of the people (University of Leicester, n.d).