Name: Zhamaine Ann B.

Balungag
Grade 11-Humss

The difference between Observation, Interview, Focus

group discussion, Documentary Analysis.
Observations form part of data collection strategies in a
qualitative research study. Conducting an observation will
enable you to witness several things relevant to your study.
It will allow you to collect data that Big Idea Observations
form part of data collection strategies in a qualitative
research study. would otherwise go undetected through
other data gathering processes, such as interviews,
because these things may have become too routinary for
your participants such that they remain undisclosed
during an interview. There are 4 types of observation:
Participant Observation, Non-Participant Observation,
Naturalistic Observation, and Simulations. Whereas, an
Interview is done to validate the information recorded in an
observation. However interviews and observations are
usually done together when conducting a research study.
There are also 4 types of interviews namely: structured,
semi-structured, informal, and retrospective. In addition to
doing one-on-one interviews, you may also conduct focus
group discussions, a data collection technique that
involves interviewing a small group of people to gain
information on a certain issue. In a focus group discussion,
you ask several groups of people (normally 6-10 people per
group) what they think or feel about a certain topic or
issue. The composition of FGD members is generally
homogeneous in terms of a specific criterion but is
heterogeneous in many other ways.
In conducting a focus group discussion, it is essential that
researchers possess the following skills:
facilitating and moderating, listening, observing, and
analyzing. The researcher should be able to moderate,
encourage, enrich, and clearly direct the discussions. A
documentary or content analysis is another method for
gathering data in qualitative research. By examining
relevant texts, content analysi
s is a method used to investigate human behavior
indirectly, according to Franklen and Wallen(2010). Books,
journals, magazines, artworks, songs and images are just
few examples of the documents that may be included.