Thursday, 5 April 2012

-CHECKLISTS-

Data-collection Instruments
In administering the data-collection instruments, it could be done by the researchers themselves or by the subjects.

Researcher-completed instruments
Performance checklists are to be completed by the researcher.
  • A performance-checklist features a list of behaviours.
  • The behaviours usually portray a certain type of performance. The real purpose of performance-checklist is to find out whether the subject is behaving in a desired way when he or she is completing the task or not. This could be seen through the number of check marks that the subject has drawn on the checklist.
  • In addition, the rating scales will be used in a checklist if the researcher has the intention to know how well the process is when the subject performs the task.
  • The example is on page 122, figure 7.11

Subject-completed Instruments
On the other hand, self-checklists are to be completed by the subjects.
  • A self-checklist illustrates a list of criteria related to the subjects of a study.
  • The criteria could be the characteristics, activities and many more.
  • If the subject met the characteristic or perhaps performed the activities, the subject should mark the particular criteria in the list. 
  • the example is on page 125, figure 7.13 
  
The Purposes
  • As a guide to build skills in writing research proposals
  • To develop the quality of research proposals
  • To guide evaluative feedback
  • To provide formative evaluation thus supporting the summative evaluation
  • As a guide to evaluate previous proposals
Lynnda J. Emery, Carolyn Harvey and Catherine M. Andersen. (2006). Formative Evaluation Using Checklists to Improve Research Proposals.

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