The Opinions of Researchers on Participant Sampling

Abstract

The aim of the study is to investigate the opinions of researchers on recording survey data. The study used the case study approach from qualitative research designs and critical case sampling from purposeful sampling types. The study group consisted of a total of 10 researchers, 6 women and 4 men, who work at the faculty of education of a state university and have completed their doctorates in field education. An opinion form prepared by the researcher and an unstructured interview method were used as data collection tools in the study. The opinion form comprised of only one open-ended question for researchers to provide their opinions on recording data provided by a survey used in qualitative research. In the unstructured interview, the participants provided general elaborations of the opinions they had written on the opinion form. It was possible to create a ranking of the opinions provided about recording, and it was seen that the preferred method was the recording of image and sound together. The complete determined ranking of preference of the researchers is as follows: the researcherrecording the images and sounds together, the researcherrecording just the sounds, the researcher just making notes during the interview, the researcher writing the answers at the end of the interviews, and the participants writing down the answers to the questions themselves.