Conducting Educational Research by Tuckman Bruce W. Harper Brian E. & BRIAN E. HARPER

Author:Tuckman, Bruce W.,Harper, Brian E. & BRIAN E. HARPER
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781442209657
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.

Direct Versus Indirect Questions

The difference between direct and indirect questions lies in how obviously the questions solicit specific information. A direct question, for instance, might ask someone whether or not she likes her job. An indirect question might ask what she thinks of her job or selected aspects of it, supporting the researcher’s attempt to build inferences from patterns of responses. By asking questions without obvious purposes, the indirect approach is the more likely of the two to engender frank and open responses. It may take a greater number of questions to collect information relevant to a single point, though. (Specific administrative procedures may help a researcher to engender frank responses to direct questions, as described later in the chapter.)

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